A highly scalable electronic mail service using open systems
Nick Christenson, Tim Bosserman, David Beckemeyer · 1997
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 di culties in implementing a service on this scale. 1