MUPDATE master server

[Rob Siemborski]

On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 marc.bigler at day.com wrote:

> >Its possible.  Make sure you understand that you're doing this for the
> >shared namespace though, otherwise you almost certainly want a more
> >traditional IMAP proxy like perdition.
>
> The main advantage that we are interested in is that we would have two IMAP
> connection points for clients located in two different geographical
> locations. The user which would connect wouldn't care at which locations he
> connects to the front end server because the frontend server would know on
> which back end server his mailbox is.

This is possible with perdition.

> >I think you should be sure Murder is what you want before you jump into
> >it.  It solves a very special problem that most people don't have.
>
> I think I will wait until Murder gets some kind of replication integrated
> as that would really give a big plus to the whole concept. You would then
> also have high availability.

No kidding.

I'm looking forward to the donation that makes developing that possible.

-Rob

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