As messaging or email increases in volume and size, the need for a scalable enterprise messaging system becomes more apparent to many organizations. The Sun ONE Messaging Server product fills these requirements and more. However, as with any system the planning, installation, and routine maintenance tasks have a significant impact on throughput and availability.

This book details best practices for architecting, deploying, and integrating the Sun ONE Messaging Server 5.2 product. It covers topics ranging from the basics of planning the system, a sample installation, to tuning the system through monitoring the system to ensure that it is operational.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Dave Pickens is an Enterprise Architect in the Academic and Research Computing Group at Sun Microsystems. He has over ten years of experience in systems engineering including large systems deployments such as SAP and PeopleSoft. Previous publications include several articles on network diagramming tools for InfoWorld. Currently he is working on various projects with Sun's Education (Universities and K-12) customers involving the Sun ONE software products such as the Sun ONE Directory Server, Sun ONE Messaging Server and the Sun Calendar Server.