From: Phil Howard (no email)
Date: Sat Feb 01 2003 - 17:31:44 EST
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 11:31:13AM -0500, Rob Siemborski wrote:
| On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Phil Howard wrote:
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| > | 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
So this new message was be appended to the same FILE? That sounds
more like the old UNIX mailbox format.
| Doing replicated IMAP stores (espeically geographicly distanct ones) is
| not an easy problem.
It's easy if every message is a separate file.
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