Network Working Group R. Siemborski
Request for Comments: 3656 Carnegie Mellon University
Category: Experimental December 2003
The Mailbox Update (MUPDATE)
Distributed Mailbox Database Protocol
Status of this Memo
This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet
community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested.
Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
As the demand for high-performance mail delivery agents increases, it
becomes apparent that single-machine solutions are inadequate to the
task, both because of capacity limits and that the failure of the
single machine means a loss of mail delivery for all users. It is
preferable to allow many machines to share the responsibility of mail
delivery.
The Mailbox Update (MUPDATE) protocol allows a group of Internet
Message Access Protocol (IMAP) or Post Office Protocol - Version 3
(POP3) servers to function with a unified mailbox namespace. This
document is intended to serve as a reference guide to that protocol.
Siemborski Experimental