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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: Michael Barnett <mbarnett@cais.net>
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On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Michael Barnett wrote:

> We are redesigning our email scheme, and I am looking for an alternative
> to pushing passwords around on dozens of machines.  Right now, we have 10
> mail machines for mail exchanging/pop access for our domain. (5 for mx  ..
> 5 for pop ..  both setup on a VIP behind a Foundry load balancing switch).
...
> There are currently 24054 entries in the master.passwd file, so this
> process is going to be unmanageable very soon.

  This seems a little weird to me.  10 mail servers for 24,054 users?
That seems like a lot of hardware.  I've seen single machines handling
30,000 POP mailboxes easily.  How many delivered messages do you average a
day?


Tom



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