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USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems, 1997

A Highly Scalable Electronic Mail Service Using Open Systems

Nick Christenson, Tim Bosserman, and David Beckemeyer
EarthLink Network, Inc.

Abstract

Email is one of the most important of the Internet services. As a very large, fast growing, Internet Service Provider, EarthLink requires a robust and powerful email architecture that will support rapid expansion. This paper describes such an architecture, its motivations, its future, and the difficulties in implementing a service on this scale.
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