From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 11 22:54:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gateway.vsl.cua.edu (mail.vsl.cua.edu [136.242.188.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9619B37B401 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:54:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hwg@vsl.cua.edu) Received: from localhost (hwg@localhost) by gateway.vsl.cua.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA05168; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 00:40:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from hwg@vsl.cua.edu) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 00:40:08 -0500 (EST) From: "THG@VSL" To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, The Hardware Group Subject: RE: Sendmail Question... In-Reply-To: <004501c10a94$bf78ff20$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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