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Title : The MUPDATE Distributed Mailbox Database Protocol
Author(s) : R. Siemborski
Filename : draft-siemborski-mupdate-04.txt
Pages : 20
Date : 2003-5-15
As the demand for high-performance mail delivery agents increases,
it becomes apparent that single-machine solutions are inadequate to
the task, both because of capacity limits and that the failure of
the single machine means a loss of mail delivery for all users. It
is preferable to allow many machines to share the responsibility of
mail delivery.
The Mailbox Update (MUPDATE) protocol allows a group of IMAP (or
POP3) servers to function with a unified mailbox namespace. This
document is intended to serve as a reference guide to that protocol.
Please note that this specification is provided to give information
to the internet community; it is anticipated that it would need to
be revised before widespread adaption.
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