From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Oct 18 14:32:58 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81216C171C6 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2016 14:32:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: from cosmo.uchicago.edu (cosmo.uchicago.edu [128.135.70.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FDDB231; Tue, 18 Oct 2016 14:32:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: by cosmo.uchicago.edu (Postfix, from userid 48) id 2BA30CB8CBC; Tue, 18 Oct 2016 09:32:56 -0500 (CDT) Received: from 128.135.52.6 (SquirrelMail authenticated user valeri) by cosmo.uchicago.edu with HTTP; Tue, 18 Oct 2016 09:32:56 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <32125.128.135.52.6.1476801176.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <3ceed8a7-50dd-2fd5-d110-4a77e43f36ad@freebsd.org> References: <20161018074415.0f6575675db30d0b83d9b8ec@sohara.org> <60719.69.209.239.247.1476794773.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <20161018140531.GA1080@lime.woodcruft.co.uk> <3ceed8a7-50dd-2fd5-d110-4a77e43f36ad@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 09:32:56 -0500 (CDT) Subject: OFF TOPIC: pw add user slow From: "Valeri Galtsev" To: "Matthew Seaman" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-5.el5.centos.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 14:32:58 -0000 On Tue, October 18, 2016 9:21 am, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 10/18/16 15:05, Frank Shute wrote: >> Doesn't the imap server have an option for using a relational database >> rather >> than filling passwd up? I'd go for that option if it does. > > If we're talking about dovecot as the IMAP server in question, then, > yes, it can connect to a wide variety of databases for it's > authentication data. It can also read from an arbitrary passwd(7) > format file -- not the same as the system passwd file. > > On the scale the OP is working with, personally I'd not create 6000 unix > user accounts on the IMAP server: rather create a single account to own > all of the imap Maildirs and use a separate database of Mail user > accounts. This and other configuration patterns are discussed in detail > on the Dovecot wiki as I recall. I have off topic question. Just the other day I got warning that dovecot port currently has no maintainer. I was so happy with dovecot for over one and a half decades, so switching to something else doesn't give me good feelings. Anybody knows any more details about dovecot port? Thanks a lot for your answers! Valeri > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++