From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 27 16:54:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA18939 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 16:54:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from css.tuu.utas.edu.au (acs@css.tuu.utas.edu.au [131.217.115.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA18934 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 16:54:48 -0700 (PDT) From: andrew@ugh.net.au Received: from localhost (acs@localhost) by css.tuu.utas.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA05018 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 09:55:42 +1000 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: depravitas.tuu.utas.edu.au: acs owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 09:55:42 +1000 (EST) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How Many Users In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.16.19970827173227.370f33a8@roskihs.roskildebc.dk> Message-ID: X-Meaning-of-Life: none X-WonK: *wibble* MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, Leif Neland wrote: > One ISP uses adresses as xxx@post1.tele.dk, yyy@post4.tele.dk; I donīt know > how many users they have. sendmail has abn option to forward unknown users to another host so you could set up several mail servers each forwarding unknown users to each other (watch out for loops) and configure them all as MXs... You could also write your own rules to split the users up alphabetically (though you will probably want the ssendmail book) ie A-G on one host etc. Andrew