From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 11 14:53:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3274837B405 for ; Sat, 11 May 2002 14:52:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b185.otenet.gr [212.205.244.193]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4BLqiG1003526; Sun, 12 May 2002 00:52:45 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4BLqXKq016930; Sun, 12 May 2002 00:52:43 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.3/8.12.2/Submit) id g4BLMV7O016599; Sun, 12 May 2002 00:22:31 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 00:22:30 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Lord Raiden Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Large numbers of users Message-ID: <20020511212230.GE16174@hades.hell.gr> References: <4.2.0.58.20020511125817.009dc100@pop.netzero.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20020511125817.009dc100@pop.netzero.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i 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 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