Cyrus aggregator

[Rob Siemborski]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Thomas Hager wrote:

> you can use a frontend like perdition to achieve all of the above.
> perdition basically is a pop3/imap proxy, which handles authentication
> with the client, and retrieves the actual host of the mailbox via an
> ldap/sql/... lookup. it then proxies the connection to the looked-up
> host, which may be your old cyrus imapd, a new cyrus imapd or one of
> your other servers.

I'd even recommend this if you're just doing POP.  The aggregator gets you
very little beyond this unless you are using shared mailboxes that need to
be accessable to all clients (there are some minor advantages, but it may
not be worth the configuration headache).

-Rob

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