From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Apr 22 10:10:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA25533 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 10:10:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.webspan.net (mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA25528 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 10:10:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970116) with ESMTP id NAA20220; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 13:08:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (WEBSPN/970116) with ESMTP id NAA17035; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 13:08:44 -0400 (EDT) To: Steve cc: Blaz Zupan , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Mail distribution In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Apr 1997 10:53:28 EDT." Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 13:08:43 -0400 Message-ID: <17033.861728923@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Steve wrote in message ID : > Why cant you? I cant think of how you could keep multiple copies of > inboxes in sync. 1) You don't have to, although I've been told IMAP4 alledgedly has hooks to do this 2) Ever heard of a NetApp? The principle is very simple. You put up several honkin NFS servers in the back, and as many POP3 server boxes as you like in the front, mounting from the NFS server. Delivery and other configuration is an excercise for the reader. There are other ways too, but I dont wanna be giving out trade secrets :) Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info