From: Rob Siemborski (no email)
Date: Sat Feb 01 2003 - 11:31:13 EST
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Phil Howard wrote:
> | Of course replicating some things such as seen state will be quite
> | painful, and you may need to do some hacks to keep uids unique between
> | the machines.
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> How does Cyrus manage uids? I hope these are not uids in /etc/passwd.
No, they're the unique identifier numbers for each message. I believe the
problem John was asking about is, what happens if you have, say, an APPEND
happen to a mailbox on both servers while they are not in communication
with eachother.
When they resync, each has a new message with the same unique identifier,
but different contents. This isn't a situation that can be recoverd from
just be looking at the contents of the filesystem.
Doing replicated IMAP stores (espeically geographicly distanct ones) is
not an easy problem.
-Rob
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