Misunderstanding of MUPDATE ?

[Christian Schulte]

Etienne Goyer wrote:

>I don't pretend to be an expert on the subject, but according to my
>understanding :
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>On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 04:14:08AM +0200, Christian Schulte wrote:
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>>So what does that mean for the backends exactly ?
>>Are all mailboxes from all backend servers accessible through the 
>>backends or is the whole murder only accessible through the frontends ?
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>Individual backend only make their local mailbox available, but you can
>access any mailbox (located in a backend member of the Murder, that is) 
>through a frontend. 
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>>So users connecting to the wrong backend cannot access theire mailbox 
>>and get an error ?
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>Right.
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>>Only frontend-servers proxy for all backends and one backend-server 
>>alone does not proxy for other backends and pushes local changes to the 
>>mupdate master to make the changes available for the frontends ?
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>That's about it !
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Thanks!

--Christian--