Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 00:22:30 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Lord Raiden <raiden23@netzero.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Large numbers of users Message-ID: <20020511212230.GE16174@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20020511125817.009dc100@pop.netzero.net> References: <4.2.0.58.20020511125817.009dc100@pop.netzero.net>
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On 2002-05-11 13:08, 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? Any solution that authenticates / stores users to a "real" database instead of /etc/master.passwd should work fine, I think. I haven't used something of THAT scale, but I have seen LDAP or MySQL links to the home pages of the most popular MTAs. Just a thought, nothing too detailed I'm afraid. - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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