Have your considered placing the users mail store on a Coda Files System 
(http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/) or similar?  CODA supports disconnected 
operation and multiple write masters.  I used it for a distributed CVS 
archive.  The only problem we had was that during network outages between 
sites it was possible to have the same file modified in both write servers 
thus requiring an administrator to resolve the conflict (see Coda manual for 
details on this) when synchronizing.  Considering that Courier uses unique 
file names for mail storage you shouldn't have this problem.  Also, since 
each unique file will most likely only be accessed by one user at a single 
site, the chances are very slim that the file could be modified on both sites 
while the link was down.

You might want to check out Coda.  I have thought about it a little in the 
case where we end up locating our servers at multiple data centers.  Since 
that is still a ways out I haven't tested this in a lab environment yet with 
Courier.

-- 
Jacob S. Barrett
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www.amduat.net

"I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it."


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