On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 11:31:13AM -0500, Rob Siemborski wrote: | On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Phil Howard wrote: | | > | Of course replicating some things such as seen state will be quite | > | painful, and you may need to do some hacks to keep uids unique between | > | the machines. | > | > How does Cyrus manage uids? I hope these are not uids in /etc/passwd. | | No, they're the unique identifier numbers for each message. I believe the | problem John was asking about is, what happens if you have, say, an APPEND | happen to a mailbox on both servers while they are not in communication | with eachother. | | When they resync, each has a new message with the same unique identifier, | but different contents. This isn't a situation that can be recoverd from | just be looking at the contents of the filesystem.
So this new message was be appended to the same FILE? That sounds more like the old UNIX mailbox format. | Doing replicated IMAP stores (espeically geographicly distanct ones) is | not an easy problem. It's easy if every message is a separate file. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Texas, USA | http://ka9wgn.ham.org/ | -----------------------------------------------------------------
