From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 11 18:31:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from starbug.ugh.net.au (starbug.ugh.net.au [203.31.238.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8926A37B405 for ; Sat, 11 May 2002 18:31:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by starbug.ugh.net.au (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4C91EA804; Sun, 12 May 2002 11:31:14 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by starbug.ugh.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B0A9542D; Sun, 12 May 2002 11:31:14 +1000 (EST) Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 11:31:14 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew To: Lord Raiden Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Large numbers of users In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20020511125817.009dc100@pop.netzero.net> Message-ID: <20020512112832.B52524-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au> X-WonK: *wibble* 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 On Sat, 11 May 2002, Lord Raiden wrote: > 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? Yes...numerous ways. Have a look at the docs for your MTA (I reccomend postfix) and read about virtual users. Then you'll need a POP/IMAP server that supports it. I came across vdpopd the other day and it looks quite good. The cyrus stuff might help as well. You can end up using LDAP or SQL to store your user dtabse which is better from an admin POV anyway if you have that many users. Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message