CarmarthenshireCounty Council has
deployed anopen source e-mailsystem for all
schools covered by the council.
The rollout is believed to be the UK's largest Open Source
e-mail system to 15 secondary schools and 125 primary schools and
is providing 40,000 children in the region with web-based e-mail
access.
Developed by Sirius, a European Open Source services provider,
the e-mail system is based on a a bi-lingual e-mail portal.
Pupils and teachers now have access to three different versions
of the system depending on age group. For example, primary school
children use e-mail through a simple interface, whilst secondary
school pupils use more advanced features. All users have access to
webmail in both English and Welsh.
Staff will manage the e-mail system using the open sourse GOSA,
the same tool deployed by
Specsavers in their transition to Open Source software. This
offers a way to import data and control sending and receiving email
messages from unauthorised users.