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Dmetcalfe_13626
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Nov 27, 2013

How to create a VS to load balance POP3 and IMAP

I have 2 5000 series loadbalancers with LTM. Is there a simple way to load balance POP3 and IMAP mail servers. Our customer facing mail does SMTP (which I have working), POP3 and IMAP. I can't figure...
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rob_carr
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Nov 27, 2013

If you are load-balancing traffic to servers that require authentication, and your back-end servers aren't in a cluster (where the servers share session state information), then more than likely you will need to enable persistence.

 

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