RFC 3656
The Mailbox Update (MUPDATE) Distributed Mailbox Database Protocol, December 2003
- File formats:
- Status:
- EXPERIMENTAL
- Updated by:
- RFC 8996
- Author:
- R. Siemborski
- Stream:
- INDEPENDENT
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC3656
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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.
For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.
For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.