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        RFC 2221

        Title:      IMAP4 Login Referrals
	Author:     M. Gahrns
        Status:     Proposed Standard
	Date:       October 1997
        Mailbox:    mikega@microsoft.com
        Pages:      5
        Characters: 9251
        Updates/Obsoletes:  None

        URL:        ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc2221.txt


When dealing with large amounts of users and many IMAP4 [RFC-2060]
servers, it is often necessary to move users from one IMAP4 server to
another.  For example, hardware failures or organizational changes may
dictate such a move.  Login referrals allow clients to transparently
connect to an alternate IMAP4 server, if their home IMAP4 server has
changed.

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