@misc{rfc3656, series = {Request for Comments}, number = 3656, howpublished = {RFC 3656}, publisher = {RFC Editor}, doi = {10.17487/RFC3656}, url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3656}, author = {Rob Siemborski}, title = {{The Mailbox Update (MUPDATE) Distributed Mailbox Database Protocol}}, pagetotal = 19, year = 2003, month = dec, 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.}, }