From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Sep 16 9:59:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from proxima.axl.net (proxima.axl.net [216.66.11.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2CB4C15460 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 09:59:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@axl.net) Received: (qmail 77876 invoked from network); 16 Sep 1999 16:57:46 -0000 Received: from cv39849-a.stmfd1.ct.home.com (HELO sinister) (24.228.19.132) by smtp-east-1.axl.net with SMTP; 16 Sep 1999 16:57:46 -0000 Reply-To: From: "Matthew B. Henniges" To: Subject: RE: SMTP load balancing Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 13:01:03 -0400 Message-ID: <000a01bf0065$0feab480$e600000a@darkmaze.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <199909151338.KAA15642@ns1.sminter.com.ar> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > b) Uniform POP3 access to mailboxes under the same name > becomes impossible. > If the mail accounts were split across the servers in some sort of ordered way, you could always write a _very_ small proxy for the front end that did something similar to this: 1. If account name begins with a-f redirect to server 1, g-m to server 2 2. reissue the USER command to the appropriate server, and then pass the response back to the client. from this point forward, the proxy just forward things between the client and the server. Matthew B. Henniges Axl.net Communications http://www.axl.net (203) 552-1714 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message