Misunderstanding of MUPDATE ?

[Rob Siemborski]

On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Christian Schulte wrote:

> Machine "A"=Backend Server + MUPDATE slave
> Machine "B"= Frontend Server + MUPDATE master

You shouldn't run any mupdate servers on backends.  You can run a mupdate
master server on the same server as a frontend without too many problems,
however.

> Are POP/IMAP services still completely available on the other machine if
> one machine goes down. Even if the MUPDATE master goes down ?

The failure modes are described in:

http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/ag.html (Section 4.2 and 4.3)

-Rob

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