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Subject: [OT] synchronizing mbox between 2 machines
From: Louis-David Mitterrand (cunctatorapartia.ch)
Date: Tue Mar 21 2000 - 09:44:11 CST

Hello,

This not a straight Postfix question (although both machines involved
run it) but more a general request for wisdom.

I have this mail host connected non-permanently through ISDN and its
roaming users want to access their mail while on the road. For this I
set up some external mailboxes on my co-located server and all mail
landing on their ISDN host is duplicated to the external mailboxes.

The problem is how to synchronize mailboxes on the both hosts, so that
roaming users (who spend most of their time at the home office reading
their mail from the ISDN host) don't get duplicate messages when polling
their external mailbox.

I was thinking of running an hourly cron job with rsync to mirror the
ISDN host's mailboxes to the external host. Is this a good idea? Is
there a better, more orthodox solution? My concern is that the ISDN host
would have to be root on my external host to perform that sync, which I
would rather avoid.

Thanks in advance for any insight, 

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