Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 20:02:58 -0400 (EDT) From: "BSD Questions" <bsdquestions@connect1.ca> To: <andrew@ugh.net.au> Cc: <raiden23@netzero.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Large numbers of users Message-ID: <3281.192.168.1.40.1021248178.squirrel@www.connect1.ca> In-Reply-To: <20020512112832.B52524-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au> References: <20020512112832.B52524-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au>
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I had set up something simular to what you are trying to do a couple years ago. I used Postfix as the MTA and had qmail installed for the virtual hosts. Qmail has support for virtual domains with the addon software called vpopmail. It creates its own user database for each virtual domain, so you do not have to have them as part of your local users. I just had to create a transport map in postfix to pass the virtual domain mail to qmail's vpopmail. Go to this site and there is good documentation there on how to set it up. I am not sure if there is a limit to the amount of users you can have, but maybe it is there in the documents or you can email the people on this site. http://inter7.com/freesoftware/ Frank Andrew said: > > > On Sat, 11 May 2002, Lord Raiden wrote: > >> the limit of users is 65k per machine? Is there a way to setup mail >> services that doesn't require me to have any actual user accounts on >> the machine, yet still provide mail services? > > Yes...numerous ways. Have a look at the docs for your MTA (I reccomend > postfix) and read about virtual users. Then you'll need a POP/IMAP > server that supports it. I came across vdpopd the other day and it > looks quite good. The cyrus stuff might help as well. > > You can end up using LDAP or SQL to store your user dtabse which is > better from an admin POV anyway if you have that many users. > > Andrew > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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