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Re: pop server in an ISP environment
From: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon () eiv com>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 08:26:20 EDT
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Muljawan Hendrianto wrote:
I am thinking about using QPOPPER+procmail, but some people say that it is not scalable because its authentication is based on /etc/passwd. And in Unix environment there is certain recommendation not to have more than 5000 users in /etc/passwd file.
That is outdated information, in my opinion. You should be able to control the scaling on that with sufficient machines in your cluster; for 20,000 users, /etc/passwd (or, one would hope, /etc/shadow) should be fine. Now, the question is; how sure are you you're not going to greatly exceed 20,000 users?
Current thread:
- pop server in an ISP environment Muljawan Hendrianto (May 26)
- Re: pop server in an ISP environment Jim Mercer (May 26)
- Re: pop server in an ISP environment John Butler (May 26)
- Re: pop server in an ISP environment ww (May 26)
- Re: pop server in an ISP environment Michael Shields (May 26)
- RE: pop server in an ISP environment Dmitri Krioukov (May 29)
- RE: pop server in an ISP environment Roeland Meyer (E-mail) (May 29)
- RE: pop server in an ISP environment Greg A. Woods (May 29)
- Re: pop server in an ISP environment Pat Myrto (May 29)
- RE: pop server in an ISP environment Roeland Meyer (E-mail) (May 29)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: pop server in an ISP environment Shawn McMahon (May 26)
- Re: pop server in an ISP environment Peter van Dijk (May 30)
- RE: pop server in an ISP environment Roeland M.J. Meyer (May 30)
- Re: pop server in an ISP environment Dave Crocker (May 30)
- Re: pop server in an ISP environment Steve Sobol (May 30)
- Re: pop server in an ISP environment Dave Crocker (May 30)
- Re: pop server in an ISP environment Steve Sobol (May 30)
- Re: pop server in an ISP environment Steve Sobol (May 30)
- Re: pop server in an ISP environment Dave Crocker (May 30)