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Enterprise Overview
Sector: Local Government
Size: Large, 9000
Regional Pop.: 170000
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"The Open Source e-mail solution provided by Sirius Corporation was the most technically advanced and offered the lowest total-cost-of-ownership."
Giles Nunn, ISP Officer
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What is Carmarthenshire County Council?
www.carmarthenshire.gov.uk
Carmarthenshire County Council is one of the largest and most diverse employers in South West Wales, employing over 9000 employees who provide services across a rural county to a population of 170,000.
Business Situation
The Council's ICT Development Centre provided POP3 e-mail to 15 secondary schools and 125 primary schools, some 40,000 potential end-users.
Staff were under pressure to deploy a centralised, bi-lingual e-mail solution to simplify the provision and management of pupil's mailbox accounts.
The Solution
With the decision made to migrate accounts from POP3 to IMAP, Sirius deployed a new e-mail solution that authenticates against OpenLDAP.
End-users now have access to three different versions of the webmail client depending upon pre-defined profiles stored in OpenLDAP.
For example, primary school children send and receive e-mail through a simplified user interface (UI), whilst secondary school pupils can use more advanced features.
All users have access to the webmail client in both English and Welsh.
The administration of accounts was simplified through the use of the GOsa management console which included additional functionality to control the sending and receipt of e-mail from unauthorised recipients and importing existing data.
The Benefits
- Bi-lingual webmail access where accessibility is controlled by a user's profile in OpenLDAP
- Customised, feature-rich UI based on proven Open Source technologies
- Simplified account provision and management using the GOsa administration tool
- Massively scalable hosting platform based on Debian GNU/Linux
- Zero licensing fees
Technologies
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