>No, that isn't possible (with IMail or any other mail server), without huge
>amounts of work.
>
>There are several problems. First of all, mail clients are set up to
>accept mail from only 1 domain name (IE "mail.example.com"). Secondly,
>even if all your users had two accounts set up, synchronization would be a
>nightmare (which server has which messages, if they keep their E-mail on
>the server).
> Thanks a los Scott, I just wonder how hotmail, yahoo and others do?
>I'm 10,000,000 times smaller than them, but I tought there could be a way...
It can definitely be done, if you have the money.
First, you need to set up your DNS entries so that you have just one host
name ("pop3.example.com") that will resolve to all of the POP3 servers that
you have. That's pretty easy to do ("pop3.example.com A 127.0.0.1" and
"pop3.example.com A 127.0.0.2", for example).
Then, you have to set up a system where each of those IP addresses points
to a server that can somehow retrieve the data from one central storage
location. Of course, you need to have at least two physical locations with
the central storage (otherwise, a hardware failure at that site or a
burglar cutting the phone wires or an earthquake or whatever would cause
access to be lost). But, you have to keep those two-or-more storage
facilities in constant contact and keep the data the same on both. Then,
you need to make sure each of the POP3 servers has a high enough bandwidth
connection to the storage sites to be useable. This piece will require
lots of expensive equipment, and lots of money for consulting.
-Scott
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