Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 00:40:08 -0500 (EST) From: "THG@VSL" <hwg@vsl.cua.edu> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, The Hardware Group <hardware@hardwaregroup.com> Subject: RE: Sendmail Question... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107120038001.5153-100000@gateway.vsl.cua.edu> In-Reply-To: <004501c10a94$bf78ff20$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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> Above 60K users what the ISP's do is they generally use a central SQL server > for the storage of the authentication information, and patch sendmail and the > pop server to use it for username determination/authentication. The mail > storage directories are generally hashed. Sometimes they have a collection of > mailservers that accept and spit out incoming and outgoing mail and save the > user's mail on a central server via NFS. All of these are non-trivial! wow, quite insightful! lol, considering I'll be handing atmost 150 users, not too much to worry about, but always good to learn :) > Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide > Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com I'll be buying this tomorrow! Great review on this book and looks like something all FreeBSD admins could use :) Thanks for putting the time into the book! Sabre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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