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From: tomlinj@nostromo.CAS.ORST.EDU (Jack Tomlinson)
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Subject: Re: Distributed MH
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Date: 26 Apr 91 19:54:32 GMT
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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.