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- From: jromine@binky.ics.uci.edu (John Romine)
- Subject: Re: POP service replication
- Nntp-Posting-Host: binky.ics.uci.edu
- Message-ID: <2B324769.14888@ics.uci.edu>
- Summary: check out IMAP
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
- Reply-To: jromine@ics.uci.edu (John Romine)
- Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
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- Date: 18 Dec 92 21:49:29 GMT
- References: <MRL.92Dec17092427@sun4.uai.com> <2B30CAD2.24855@ics.uci.edu> <MRL.92Dec18091531@sun4.uai.com>
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- mrl@uai.com (Mark R. Ludwig) writes:
- >Can one have more than one host in the "localname:" and "pophost:" fields?
-
- No. "localname" should reflect the name you want to appear in
- your "From:" header. Basically, it overrides the local hostname
- value retrieved from the OS (via gethostname() or uname(), etc.).
-
- "pophost" should reflect your POP service host. Often, you want
- to make "localname" the same as "pophost" so that outgoing mail
- appears to have originated on the POP service host. This was more
- important in the days before nameservers (and MX RRs) were widely used.
-
- >More generally, has anyone successfully distributed their Electronic
- >Post Office for a given group of people?
-
- I have not. I have only one central mail spool for those users.
- POP isn't really well-suited to this problem (it solves a different,
- smaller problem). There are other research efforts in this direction,
- however. Check out the work on IMAP for example.
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- John Romine
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