From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Apr 22 10:57:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA28971 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 10:57:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bellind.com ([206.101.34.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA28966 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 10:57:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cdcexchange.bellind.com ([170.1.130.2]) by firewall.bellind.com with SMTP id <17114-1>; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 10:56:21 -0700 Received: by cdcexchange.bellind.com with Microsoft Exchange (IMC 4.0.837.3) id <01BC4F0C.8D72BCC0@cdcexchange.bellind.com>; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:01:39 -0700 Message-ID: From: Rudy Gireyev To: "'Blaz Zupan'" Cc: "'freebsd-isp@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: Mail distribution Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:01:37 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.837.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >> > POP3 on this new machine? I simply can't believe that >> > all providers have only one POP3 server. >> Why cant you? > >How about "single point of failure"? Do you really want me to >believe that f.e. AOL has one single POP3 server for all their >thousands (millions?) of mailboxes? Hmmm, you must not have heard the news last week. Microsoft network users could not get their mail ALL DAY LONG. Because Microsoft was upgrading one of their boxes with Windows NT. The upgrade took just over an hour but when they ran FDISK it took over 20 hours to finish (Duhhh). IBM network users also could not retreive their mail for half a day. I wonder why? :-) >> I cant think of how you could keep multiple copies of inboxes in sync. > >Yeah, that's the problem I'm trying to solve :) > >-- >Blaz Zupan, blaz.zupan@medinet.si, http://www.medinet.si/~blaz >Medinet d.o.o., Linhartova 21, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia >