[imp] multiple IMP front ends?

[John H. Yates]

I've looked at subjects back to August but don't see anything that looks like
a multiple front end discussion. Can you sen me a URL or a Subject?

Thanks, John
(indeed, I just subscribed today or I may have seen it go by)

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