FW: I-D ACTION:draft-gahrns-imap-referrals-00.txt

["Mike Gahrns (Exchange)" <[e-mail]>]

I would appreciate any comments/suggestions on this draft.

thx,
-mikega
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>        Title     : IMAP4 Referrals
> 
>        Author(s) : M. Gahrns
>        Filename  : draft-gahrns-imap-referrals-00.txt
>        Pages     : 7
>        Date      : 01/30/1997
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> When dealing with large amounts of users, messages and geographically 
> dispersed IMAP4 [RFC-2060] servers, it may be desirable to distribute 
> messages and users amongst different servers within an organization.
> For 
> example, an IMAP4 server may choose to store user's private mailboxes 
> locally, while shared mailboxes are stored remotely on another server.
> 
> This may be required if it is uneconomical to replicate all shared 
> mailboxes to the user's local server, due to limited bandwidth or disk
> 
> resources.                                            
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> Using a referral mechanism, an IMAP4 client is able to determine the
> home 
> server of a user, by examining the referral response code at
> connection 
> startup or in response to a LOGIN or AUTHENTICATE command. By knowing
> the 
> name of any IMAP4 server in the organization, a user can be
> transparently 
> connected to their home IMAP4 server.  This greatly facilitates the
> ability
> of an administrator to transparently move users between IMAP4 servers
> for 
> reasons such as hardware failures or organizational changes.
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