Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:01:37 -0700 From: Rudy Gireyev <RGireyev@bellind.com> To: "'Blaz Zupan'" <blaz.zupan@medinet.si> Cc: "'freebsd-isp@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Mail distribution Message-ID: <c=US%a=_%p=Bellind%l=CDCEXCHANGE-970422180137Z-3603@cdcexchange.bellind.com>
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> >> > 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 >
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