Subject: Re: Multiple pop3 servers
From: Mike Tibor (tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 11 2004 - 09:45:59 AKST
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, barsalou wrote:
>
> What is the standard way to handle multiple pop servers so that the
> client doesn't have to change which pop server they access if their mail
> gets moved?
>
> Or is this an issue with how pop mail servers work.
>
> The goal is to have 2 or more pop servers, servicing users without the
> user needing to know which server they are on.
I haven't looked at doing that in quite awhile, but several years ago a
popular way was to have 2 or more pop servers mounting the mail spool via
nfs. nfs locking problems were common, and I'm not sure if the evolution
of Linux nfs has eliminated that or not.
Mike
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