Distributed mailing system: (DMS)

This paper presents the concept of a new mailing infrastructure over a hybrid Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network, covering the system architecture and the specific mail operations. Current P2P mail implementations are built on top of lower layer network architecture called overlay, which is typically designed to rely on homogeneous computing resources such as: bandwidth, computing power, storage space, etc. Our proposal classifies the participants to the network in entities and super nodes, depending on their own resource evaluation methods. This enables each peer to effectively contribute to the mailing system according to a real evaluation of its resources, therefore increasing overall application performance and reliability.