On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Caskey L. Dickson wrote: > On Thursday, March 6, 2003, at 07:04 am, Charlie Brady wrote: > > > >> It is my implicit > >> belief that an IMAP server deals with multiple simultaneous client > >> connections, but multiple separate instances of itself is another issue. > > > > Dealing with multiple simultaneous clients pretty much implies dealing > > with multiple instances of the server. > > I'm drawing a distinction here between one instance of a server having > multiple client connections and multiple instances of a server running, > each modifying the same mail store.
I realise that you are making that distinction, but I am saying that it isn't a useful one. Most (all?) *nix IMAP servers have a single client connection, and support multiple connections from one client via multiple instances of the server. This is done either by the daemon forking to service each new connection, or the use of a connection daemon such as *inetd or tcpserver. So in every case you need to deal with multiple instances of the daemon. -- Charlie
