From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 15 6:58:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp2.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp2.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AB8A37B401 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 06:57:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp2.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f0FEtZp20481; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 09:55:36 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A630F2A.A636EE33@mail.iowna.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 09:54:34 -0500 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Pilz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mail Server & Adduser References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Scott Pilz wrote: > We are looking to run Sendmail for SMTP and QPopper for POP3, on a new > mail server that we will be switching to. Firstly, is this a good setup, > or is there a better one available (say for 10k+ users). You might have a better time with qmail and the virtual domain system you can add to it. (see below) > Would a Pentium III-600MHz, 512M/SDRam w/ Ultra-Wide SCSI Drives be > efficent for this service? Hell, a 486-66 with Ultra-Slow drives would be find for 5 Million users - if they don't send much mail. More important is going to be how much mail do these folks really send around?? > We have a file of 7-8k users and passwords (format is somewhat of 'user > pass more info more info etc', however it's one user & password per > line, easily transforable to a script). We need a way to add a user in a > single command line. Adduser dosen't cut it and pw does add a user ina > single command line, but dosen't include the password. I did this when we switched from Exchange Server to qmail (God was that a worthwhile thing to do!) Just exported the Exchange user database into a comma-delimited file and wrote a perl script to use that file to add all the users. (and I don't even know perl) The virtual domain setup for qmail has a single command, vadduser, that allows you to add a user in 1 step, very nice! -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message