From: John Alton Tamplin (no email)
Date: Thu Feb 06 2003 - 09:58:30 EST
Phil Howard wrote:
>That would result in doubling the bandwidth on the inside server connection
>since it would be dealing with the mail first coming in to the MX, then
>being replicated back out to the other server. By delivering outside mail
>to the outside server first, the only bandwidth usage is replicating to
>the inside server (reverse the scenario for mail originating inside).
>
>
Is the cost of bandwidth to your inside server really so expensive as to
justify the expense of complicated development, hosting an offsite
server with that much bandwidth, and maintaining a remote system? It
really sounds like you are overengineering the problem.
>If there was a way to track when the flags got changed. I feel it's OK
>to trust the clocks on the servers, and simply decide which flag state
>prevails based on which has the later timestamp. But I bet that metadata
>isn't in the current mailstore design.
>
No, the time a flag was changed isn't kept. In fact for seen flags
which are cached in memory while a mailbox is open, only a single bit is
kept.
-- John A. Tamplin Unix System Administrator Emory University, School of Public Health +1 404/727-9931
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