On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 19:02 -0400, Mordechai T. Abzug wrote: > So, I'm interested in setting up a mail server with multimaster > replication that supports POP, IMAP, and SMTP. It looks like dbmail > might fit the bill, except for this: > > http://mailman.fastxs.net/pipermail/dbmail-dev/2004-June/004018.html > > Has this problem been solved yet?
.... > If not, since the message appears to be soliciting suggestions, I have > one -- > > For "N" servers in a multimaster config group, each server assigns > messages starting with its number, and increments by "N". Ie. if you > have three servers, server one creates messages numbered 1, 4, 7, 10, > etc, server two creates messages 2, 5, 8, 11, etc, and server three > creates messages numbered 3, 6, 9, 12, etc. And you provide a way, if > the number of servers changes to M, to start reindexing at some higher > value than the previous "N" servers had reached. Won't work. As much as it seems like this would be a good idea (and believe me: about half a dozen people on this list have had it, so it certainly is a good idea. better still, don't believe me, check the archive yourself :) ), it simply won't work. This is the grandfather of the thread: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Demonstrating unsolvability of "IMAP problem" by comparing to unsolvable clock problem: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Demonstrating unsolvability of "IMAP problem" by comparing to unsolvable serialization problem: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Possible client solutions and the nature of "The IMAP problem": <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Possible token-passing API: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Internet Connection High Quality Web Hosting http://www.internetconnection.net/
