Perdition: Press Release: Mail Retrival Proxy 1.11 Released

Press Release

For IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PERDITION: Mail Retrival Proxy 1.11 Released

6th June 2003

Perdition 1.11 a fully featured POP3 and IMAP4 proxy server is now available.

Perdition is a fully featured POP3 and IMAP4 proxy server. It is able to handle Plain-Text, SSL and TLS connections and connect end-users to a real-server based on a database lookup. Perdition supports modular based database access. ODBC, MySQL, PostgreSQL, GDBM,POSIX Regular Expression and NIS modules ship with the distribution.

First released 0.0.0 May 1999, 0.1.10 released May 2002 with several "beta releases" over the last year, further enhancing the functionality of the application, culminating with this release.

Several large companies and (ISP's) Internet Service Providers across the world have embraced the Open Source movement in recent years, and have moved to using Perdition, (released under GPL)

Pipex,in the UK, Belgacom Skynet, the largest ISP in Belgium, Ohio State University, SoVerNet, an ISP in Vermont, USA, Fastmail.FM, and NetCologe, an ISP in Cologne, Germany: are all companies using Perdition as a front-end to multiple real-servers.

GPS-Technik in Switzerland and Osprey Network Technologies in Kansas, USA are using perdition to translate account names for end-users when integrating mail services together.

The size of these deployments range from 2,500 to in excess of 250,000 accounts with up to 8 real-servers. The Perdition installation at Belgacom Skynet, Belgiums largest ISP handles approximately 7,500,000 connections per day.

Perdition is used in many ways..

Creating large mail systems where an end-user's mailbox may be stored on one of several hosts,
Integrating different mail systems together,
Migrating between different email infrastructures,
Bridging plain-text, SSL and TLS services.
It can also be used as part of a firewall.

Further details can be found at: http://horms.net/projects/perdition/
Download: http://horms.net/projects/perdition/download/"
Changelog: http://horms.net/projects/perdition/download/
Contact: Kim Shelt <kim@vergenet.net>

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