[imp] multiple servers, one addressbook DB

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting David Powicki <dpowicki@oit.umass.edu>:

> How have people solved the problem with having a farm of WWW servers running
> IMP and maintaining a single DB of address book entries and preferences?
> 
> Am I correct to assume that the only way to configure IMP to run on N number
> of servers and have them all see the same preferences is to configure each IMP
> install to talk back to a single DB server which manages both session
> information and addressbooks/preferences?

If you can guarantee that users aren't switching between servers, you don't need
to have the session db be central for addresses to be central.

-chuck

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