| 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 operable to self configure itself on said
data communications network 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;
one of said email servers being further operable to receive and effect changes, from an administrator, for the configuration
data set stored on said one email server and to announce that the configuration data set stored on said one 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 a second
data communications network connecting each of said plurality of email servers and wherein communications between said plurality
of email servers relating to the announcement that the configuration data set stored on said one email server has been changed
and the provision of the changes to the configuration data set to requesting email servers occurs over the second data communications
network wherein said one email server stores both at least one HTML file reflecting the current settings of the configuration
data set and at least one data file representing the configuration data set, said at least one email server providing copies
of both the at least one HTML file and the at least one data file to the plurality of email servers in response to the requests
from the plurality of email servers.
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