From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 11 11:40:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (mta05-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E25237B40C for ; Sat, 11 May 2002 11:40:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lungfish.ntlworld.com ([80.4.0.215]) by mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020511184005.ZNZO2755.mta05-svc.ntlworld.com@lungfish.ntlworld.com>; Sat, 11 May 2002 19:40:05 +0100 Received: from tuatara.goatsucker.org (tuatara.goatsucker.org [192.168.1.6]) by lungfish.ntlworld.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4BIe4V50291; Sat, 11 May 2002 19:40:05 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from scott@tuatara.goatsucker.org) Received: (from scott@localhost) by tuatara.goatsucker.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g4BIe4v07901; Sat, 11 May 2002 19:40:04 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from scott) Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 19:40:04 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell To: Lord Raiden Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Large numbers of users Message-ID: <20020511194004.A39056@fishballoon.dyndns.org> References: <4.2.0.58.20020511125817.009dc100@pop.netzero.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20020511125817.009dc100@pop.netzero.net>; from raiden23@netzero.net on Sat, May 11, 2002 at 01:08:21PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386 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 On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 01:08:21PM -0400, Lord Raiden wrote: > Just a little forethought to something that "might" (and the keyword here > is "might") happen in the near future with us. Well actually it's gonna be > up to me to solve this should it happen. In the race to consolidate > things, one that I regrettably had to go through this winter and pray I > never have to do again, companies want more out of less. Therefore, if > things should shift and we're required to host a mail cluster that has > over, oh say 200,000 users, how would I effectively host a mail cluster if > the limit of users is 65k per machine? Is there a way to setup mail > services that doesn't require me to have any actual user accounts on the > machine, yet still provide mail services? I believe the Cyrus IMAP/POP servers are designed such that mail users don't have normal login accounts on the server box. No idea whether it can scale to more than 64K users though. Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message