Two questions on MUPDATE

[Rob Siemborski]

On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Etienne Goyer wrote:

> First, the installation we are planning must support both POP (legacy)
> and IMAP.  Since the mailboxes will be spread on at least two imapd
> backend, we will have a problem presenting a unified POP access.  The
> obvious solution would be to have different user use different POP server,
> depending where their mailbox are located.  This is quite inelegant and
> would complicate user support.  Is there any other way ?  One solution I
> could envision would be to have a MUPDATE-aware POP proxy.  People
> connect to the proxy, the proxy resolve the user mailbox location via
> MUPDATE and serve the client request from that server.  Does such a
> thing exist ?  Pointer to alternate solution are welcome.

You mean pop3proxyd?

That said, be sure you're using the murder for the right reasons.  If you
don't need a uniform mailbox namespace, you might want to consider
perdition (and a similar POP proxy) instead of the Aggregator.

-Rob

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