Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 10:19:02 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@seagull.rtd.com> To: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Mail... Message-ID: <199503291719.KAA08418@seagull.rtd.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950329235448.6671D-100000@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw> from "Brian Tao" at Mar 30, 95 00:01:22 am
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> >>> "Dick Bednar" said: > > > > My group is grappling blindly with the prospect of providing mail to 25,000 > > students. Sadly, our Unix experience is limited, and much of it is > > out-of-date. > > Eep. 25000 mail accounts == 25000+ entries in your /etc/passwd, > and 25000 files in /var/mail. Although you did not explicitly say all > 25000 mail accounts had to be on the same machine, I would recommend > splitting that up into different mail servers. Divide the students > into faculties or degree major or whatever. Then have a separate host > for each and tell the students which machine to use to retrieve mail. > If you want a consistent address for all the students, set up a > separate mailhost that routes incoming mail to the proper machine > based on a username lookup table. I don't really see any technical > problems with having 25000 mail accounts on one machine, but that can > mean a *hell* of a lot of disk space... Sounds like a *perfect* application for a compressing filesystem ;-)
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