Use the following to try to come up with some kind of discussion points for redundantmail-discuss
Post some discussion points grouped by Mail Agent Type
Try to answer some of the questions on the Specification page
Examine Giorgio Zoppi's e-mails to see if there are any other goals for a redundant mail system
The various past projects
Get the word out
Find out from the Courier people if they need to modify the protocols to be able to have redundant mailboxen (ie. stored on different machines); if so, find out what they need and promote it. If not, encourage them to implement the things below (as well as removing the MAP reference on the Redundancy page, and ticking MP Support/Redundancy for basic level)
Things needed by Courier IMAP for redundancy:
Mailbox redundancy
Aggregating proxy (can the Cyrus aggregating proxy be used with Courier?)
Things needed by Cyrus IMAP for redundancy:
Mailbox redundancy
Should we be looking at Eddie DNS server type solutions? The DNS server is at http://eddie.sourceforge.net/[1]. It looks like a well done, but unsupported DNS server/Web redundancy solution. It may be modifiable to do Mail stuff as well -- *if* someone wants to learn Erlang. The mailing list for Eddie appears to be mostly dead.
