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As our pop3 requirements grow I want to try and remove as many single 
points of failure as possible as well as scale the system as needed.  Is 
there anything like
http://www.remote.org/jochen/mail/popular/
being used on FreeBSD ?  Does anyone have any pointers on building large 
scale load balanced pop3 systems ?

	---Mike
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