Funding Cyrus High Availability

[David Carter]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Ken Murchison wrote:

> Actually what I was really asking, is are people looking for an 
> active-active config and an active-passive config?

I'm not sure that IMAP is ameniable to active-active: the prevalence of 
UIDs in the protocol means that it would be very hard to resolve the 
inconsistencies that would occur if a pair of machines ever lost touch.

I would be happy to be proved wrong: active-active is clearly better from 
a system administrator perspective :).

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