Geographically Redundant mail stores

[John C. Amodeo]

Rob,

 >Admin users can authorize as any user they want.

I've heard this can be done...but how exactly?  Does it have something 
to do with the 'proxy user' setting or something?  What if sasl is 
patched for LDAP and does not authenticate locally against the sasldb?

Thanks,
-John

Rob Siemborski wrote:

>On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Michael Fair wrote:
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>>I'm doing some work on how to create a somewhat
>>reliable geographically redundant mail system.
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>Since I'm guessing you don't want to hear the reasons that this won't work
>(synchronizing UIDs and flags, for example, is hard), I won't go into
>that.  Instead I'll answer your main question directly.
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>>My question was that the only user I know that
>>can see the whole tree is an admin user.  But
>>by default admin users can't select the mailboxes
>>because they don't have the proper permissions.
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>Admin users can authorize as any user they want.  So simply have the admin
>user authorize as each user, and they can get to that mailbox with no
>trouble.
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>Note that if you SELECT a mailbox as a user, it *will* change the state of
>\Recent flags for the user.
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>-Rob
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