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Wild Duck is a distributed IMAP/POP3 mail server. _Distributed_ means that Wild Duck uses a distributed database (sharded + replicated MongoDB) as a backend for
storing all data, including emails. Wild Duck instances are stateless, any user can connect to any Wild Duck instance. Wild Duck uses a write ahead log to keep
IMAP sessions between different instances in sync.
Wild Duck is a scalable no-SPOF IMAP/POP3 mail server. Wild Duck uses a distributed database (sharded + replicated MongoDB) as a backend for storing all data,
including emails.
Wild Duck tries to follow Gmail in architectural design. If there's a decision to be made then usually the answer is to do whatever Gmail has done.
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Wild Duck can be installed on any Node.js compatible platform.
## No-SPOF architecture
Every component of the Wild Duck mail server can be replicated which eliminates potential single point of failures.
![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nodemailer/wildduck/master/public/wd.png)
## Usage
### Scripted install

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