Geographically Redundant mail stores

Rob Siemborski rjs3 at andrew.cmu.edu
Tue Mar 18 17:35:00 EST 2003


On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Michael Fair wrote:

> I'm doing some work on how to create a somewhat
> reliable geographically redundant mail system.

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.

> 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.

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.

Note that if you SELECT a mailbox as a user, it *will* change the state of
\Recent flags for the user.

-Rob

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