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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 13:53:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Steve <shovey@buffnet.net>
To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
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On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Gary Palmer wrote:

> Steve wrote in message ID
> <Pine.BSI.3.95.970422105249.25862K-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>:
> > 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
> 

Why dont you have to?  How would you avoid the problem of finding messages
you deleted yesterday, in your inbox today simply because you ended up on
a different pop server that day?

> 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.

But Freebsd doesnt have functiona NFS locking does it? or does netapp work
around this somehow?