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As I hinted at here<\/a>, I’ve been working on a mail related project…. Well it’s finally over and I’ve got some time to blog again… and it feels nice!<\/p>\n It’s been a busy few months, and December has been double-long (60+ extra hours in the first fortnight!!) but it’s been worth it. The new mail platform for Manx.net is done. I have to pass much thanks on to the team at Mirapoint<\/a> here in the UK – they have been consummate professionals throughout the project and the positive feedback we’re getting now is proof that it’s been worth the effort.<\/p>\n I was given the project early in the year (within a month of starting) and it was no small project either – webmail and POP3 \/ IMAP access for ~27000 people all of whom live within 1 hours drive of me! The existing platform was becoming increasingly flaky and customer complaints were growing by the day.<\/p>\n There was no margin for error – the migration had to work and it had to work first time. As I mentioned living as I do, on the Isle of Man – no-one is more than an hour away by car – so the potential for\u00c2\u00a0“feedback” coming and biting me was very real\u00c2\u00a0and slightly terrifying.<\/p>\n As it turned out, it all went very well, we had a few issues and I’m sure there’s a couple of our customers who might disagree with me, but all in all it was a very smooth changeover. I’d make a couple of suggestions to anyone who is considering a major platform change like this in future…..<\/p>\n Over-all it was hard work but extremely rewarding – and not a fortnight I’d like to go through again any time soon \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n I’d just like to\u00c2\u00a0name a few people who deserve extra thanks for making it all\u00c2\u00a0go so well…. Tony, Kev, Steve, Dickie, Sarah\u00c2\u00a0– you all deserve medals – and the rest of you (you know who you are) – I couldn’t have\u00c2\u00a0done it without you!<\/p>\n Finally – there’s one person who deserves thanks more than anyone – my wonderful wife Becs – without your patience and understanding I think I’d have gone mad!<\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n Right – back to normal service now – I’m promising myself that I’m going to blog more in 2007 – it won’t\u00c2\u00a0be hard\u00c2\u00a0to do more than 2006 – but I’m going to work on it……\u00c2\u00a0\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00c2\u00a0 As I hinted at here, I’ve been working on a mail related project…. Well it’s finally over and I’ve got some time to blog again… and it feels nice! It’s been a busy few months, and December has been … Continue reading \n