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UNM's New Web-based Email Software

April 20, 2004

UNM to get new e-mail software By Felicia Fonseca, Daily Lobo

CIRT will be replacing its current Web-based e-mail application, Mulberry, with Stalker Software's Communigate Pro. ...

The new system will allow students to use their current Net IDs and it is not expected to have many problems.

''Everyone will continue using their same IDs and go on like nothing ever happened ... I hope,'' Spence said.

CIRT will not abandon Mulberry as an option for e-mail and may also consider making a new version available later on. ...

On a typical day, CIRT gets an estimated 200,000 connects to its infrastructure. About 10,000 virus-infected e-mails, many of which originate on campus, are blocked. The main gateways receive about 300,000 messages from the outside world, the majority being spam.

''The numbers won't change, but the new system will be more efficient at handling it,'' Spence said. ...

CIRT will begin implementing the new system May 24. From that point on, Web mail will be possibly be unavailable until the beginning of August. Spence said, though, it will more than likely be the middle of the summer when it is up and running.

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