Patent ID: 8504675
Filing Date: 2013-08-06
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. An email system comprising: a plurality of email servers, each of said email servers being connected to each other of said email servers via a data communications network, each of said email servers being configured to communicate with the others of said email servers and being further operable to process email received from and/or sent to said data communications network in accordance with a configuration data set stored on each server; two or more of said email servers being further selectable to act as a primary email server and receive and effect changes, from an administrator, for the configuration data set stored on a selected one of the email servers, wherein, in response to changes to the configuration data set of said selected email server, said selected email server to transmit an announcement to the others of the email servers connected by the network that the configuration data set stored on said selected email server has been changed and, in response to requests from the others of the email servers, providing the changes to the configuration data set to each requesting email server for storage and use thereon.