Tim Showalter wrote:
When you say each user gets a separate server do you mean each individual account? and by server do you mean server application or complete server hardware?
I'm wondering about Mark's answer here. Mark's answer implied to me that each user had his own server. I do not believe that's the case. Many users might share a server, but the server is always referred to by a user's own name in DNS, as Mark described. This provides a way of moving a user without his client being aware of it. I like this method; it's cute, and solves a lot of the problems without a hell of a lot of work. (I've never tried it personally, though.)
I too have always understood it to mean that each user has their own DNS entry for their mail server. It means that the DNS domain has a lot of CNAME entries.
foo's email is on foo.imap.domain.com bar's email is on bar.imap.domain.com bill's email in on bill.imap.domain.com ted's email is on ted.imap.domain.com etc.
foo.imap.domain.com and bar.imap.domain.com are both DNS CNAME entries for imap-server-1.domain.com
bill.imap.domain.com and ted.imap.domain.com are both DNS CNAME entries for imap-server-2.domain.com
etc.
This is expanded for large values of foo/bar and bill/ted!
I do hope that's what is meant as it's what we'll be doing here soon to make moving from our old UW-IMAP server to our new one pretty easy!
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