On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Phil Howard wrote: > So this new message was be appended to the same FILE? That sounds > more like the old UNIX mailbox format.
No. Same mailbox. Two servers are in sync, both with a UIDNEXT of 1000 for a particular mailbox. They suffer a netsplit and both have an APPEND happen, regardless of the mailstore implementation, they now both have a different concept of what UID 1000 is. > | Doing replicated IMAP stores (espeically geographicly distanct ones) is > | not an easy problem. > > It's easy if every message is a separate file. This is not true. It has nothing to do with the implementation of the mailstore. -Rob -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper