>2 Machines with IMail installed and unique IP's. Both machines
>using a odbc source for adding and authenticating users. Both
>machines pointing to the same directories for mail storage.
"same": do you mean local disk drive or a 3rd box with a network
share for mailbox storage (this has been shown to be extremely slow
compared to local disk mailbox storage.
>This way if I add a user using the odbc, both boxes get updated.
no they don't, each Imail server keeps its own list of accounts, even
when usernames and passwords are in an external database. you can
only logon (pop, smtp auth, web mail) to the specific Imail machine
that holds your mailbox.
One good reason for this is that the mailboxes are local to each
Imail machine, so to accept mail for a mailbox, Imail has to know if
that mailbox is local/exists without looking up in an external
database for the answer to such a basic question.
Your approach will not result in hot-mirroring the Imail machines.
Len
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