Patent ID: 8176162

Claim:
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 operable 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; each one of said email servers being further selectable to act as a primary 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 announce that the configuration data set stored on said selected email server has been changed to the others of the email servers connected by the network and, in response to requests from email servers, providing the changes to the configuration data set to each requesting email server for storage and use thereon, and wherein the selected email server is configured to present an HTML graphical user interface to the administrator to effect the changes for the configuration data set.