[imp] multiple IMP front ends?

[Andrew Morgan]

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, John H. Yates wrote:

> Has anyone implemented IMP on multiple front ends to distribute load
> (and also for redundancy). We already have it running on one machine
> pointing it to IMAP mail folders on another machine.
>
> Does IMP have any built in "hooks" for doing multiple front ends like
> this? We would like to use the round robin DNS lookup feature that
> alternately points to two (or more) machines making the fact that
> there are multiple machines transparent to the end user.
>
> Will this be problematic because of the statelessness of the web? If
> so, can that be surmounted?
>
> Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated on the feasibility
> of this.
>
> Thanks, John

Check the archives for this list.  There has been discussion of this very
topic during the last week.

	Andy