gatesl@jasper.cs.orst.edu (GATES LEE) (04/23/91)
I am currently working on a project to make a distributed mail package. The idea is having multiple mail (MH) servers, and having a user establish a socket connection to one of the servers to read thier mail. I am having a little bit of trouble deciding which way to implement it, and thought I would ask for some input and pointers in the right direction from the net. Right now, I am thinking of having a "dumb" client socket, in that it only echos what it receives (the mail, or MH responses) from the server. But this means that I will have to either rewrite some (if not all) of the MH commands (the user will not have an account on the servers), or figure out some way to fool MH to think that the user is local, and get all the environment variables set.... If you have any ideas, thoughts, or know of a similar project somewhere that I could look at, I would appreciate it. thanx in advance. lee
jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid) (04/25/91)
In article <1991Apr23.032536.26773@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> gatesl@jasper.cs.orst.edu (GATES LEE) writes:
I am currently working on a project to make a distributed mail package.
The idea is having multiple mail (MH) servers, and having a user establish
a socket connection to one of the servers to read thier mail.
Why not just use the POP service that's included with MH?
Jimtomlinj@nostromo.CAS.ORST.EDU (Jack Tomlinson) (04/27/91)
In article <JIM.91Apr25135615@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid) writes: >In article <1991Apr23.032536.26773@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> gatesl@jasper.cs.orst.edu (GATES LEE) writes: > > I am currently working on a project to make a distributed mail package. > The idea is having multiple mail (MH) servers, and having a user establish > a socket connection to one of the servers to read thier mail. > >Why not just use the POP service that's included with MH? > > Jim I am also working on the same project with Lee, and have looked at the RFC's for POP3, and have not been able to find anywhere where it discusses multiple mail servers. One of the goals of this project is to have data redundancy for the unlikely event that the server is down. We plan on using 3 servers, each with an exact copy of the mail files. So, does in fact, POP3 implement this feature? I used Archie to find more information on POP3, but only found the recurring RFC 1081 & 1082. Any information would be appreciated. Jack.