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Berkeley Email Replacement Team information request

Aron Roberts, Bernie Tower, BERT Outreach Group

Information Systems and Technology is currently conducting technical acceptance of a new high-reliability, modern email system, which is intended to replace the current UCLink system and to enhance campus email services.

If all goes according to plan, technical acceptance will conclude in the fourth quarter of 2003 and migration to the new system is expected to begin in December 2003. You can find out more about the project at http://bert.berkeley.edu/.

We encourage you to send mail to with your suggestions or questions about the new email system. In particular, be sure to let us know if:

• There are specific enhancements you'd like to see included in the new email system.
• Your department offers any existing services which you're concerned may be affected by the new email system.
• Your department would like to migrate its mail service to the new server.
• Your department is planning any new services within the next two years which might have an impact on the new email system. Examples include new applications which might generate many messages, new services whose customers will require many new email accounts, and even entirely new uses of email.
• Your department programmatically — not manually — accesses UCLink for account and mailing list management.

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