From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 13 19: 4:46 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C865337B401 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 19:04:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from c3po.skynet.be (c3po.skynet.be [195.238.3.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79A6243F85 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 19:04:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (ip-26.shub-internet.org [194.78.144.26] (may be forged)) by c3po.skynet.be (8.12.7/8.12.7/Skynet-OUT-2.21) with ESMTP id h1E33fYb018722; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 04:04:31 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from ) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3E4BB64E.A9AEED28@mindspring.com> References: <20030211032932.GA1253@papagena.rockefeller.edu> <3E498175.295FC389@mindspring.com> <3E49C434.D8D497EE@mindspring.com> <3E4A83BC.8A15E7C3@mindspring.com> <3E4B12F5.2608BBB@mindspring.com> <3E4BB64E.A9AEED28@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 01:53:06 +0100 To: Terry Lambert From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Email push and pull (was Re: matthew dillon) Cc: Brad Knowles , Rahul Siddharthan , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 7:14 AM -0800 2003/02/13, Terry Lambert wrote: >> Okay, what parts of the problem doesn't Perdition solve? > > Replication and failover. True. But is the POP3/IMAP4 proxy really the best place to try to solve this problem? > The bck end stores that the Perdition proxy accesses have to have > the content locally available. Yup, that's a back-end issue, not one that Perdition can solve. > The result is that you provide a unified view onto a backend farm, > but you lack replication and failover in the back-end, and it does > not magically appear, merely because you are running Perdition. Fair enough. But how does this relate to the domain problem? That's all you had mentioned previously. > There are other POP3 and IMAP4 proxies that can do the same things > Perdition can: it's no big deal. I've done some research in this area. I'd be interested to know which ones you're talking about. > In fact, it doesn't deal with > LDAP, which is probably where the routing to the back end store will > occur. Do I really need to quote the relevant sections of perdition/db/ldap/perdition.schema, dated Mar 27, 2002? -- Brad Knowles, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E-(---) W+++(--) N+ !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++) tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message