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- From: aultj@rpi.edu (James Ault)
- Subject: Re: POP service replication
- Message-ID: <20257.725066108@rpi.edu>
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- Date: 22 Dec 92 23:15:50 GMT
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- > > mrl@uai.com (Mark R. Ludwig) writes:
- > >More generally, has anyone successfully distributed their Electronic
- > >Post Office for a given group of people?
- >
- > I have not. I have only one central mail spool for those users.
- > POP isn't really well-suited to this problem (it solves a different,
- > smaller problem). There are other research efforts in this direction,
- > however. Check out the work on IMAP for example.
-
- We are very close to distributing our Electronic Post Office to
- multiple POP servers, using MH, modified for Kerberos POP, and a YP
- map which maps each user to a POP server. The modifications to MH
- didn't make into MH 6.8, but we plan to submit them soon.
-
- As I understand IMAP, it allows you to distribute the client function
- to a number of platforms, while keeping the central storage for mail
- in one location. We are interested in distributing the server storage
- function across multiple machines, and I assume Mark was also.
-
- Jim Ault, ITS Systems Programmer, aultj@rpi.edu <><
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