Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 19:40:04 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> To: Lord Raiden <raiden23@netzero.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Large numbers of users Message-ID: <20020511194004.A39056@fishballoon.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20020511125817.009dc100@pop.netzero.net>; from raiden23@netzero.net on Sat, May 11, 2002 at 01:08:21PM -0400 References: <4.2.0.58.20020511125817.009dc100@pop.netzero.net>
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On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 01:08:21PM -0400, Lord Raiden wrote: > Just a little forethought to something that "might" (and the keyword here > is "might") happen in the near future with us. Well actually it's gonna be > up to me to solve this should it happen. In the race to consolidate > things, one that I regrettably had to go through this winter and pray I > never have to do again, companies want more out of less. Therefore, if > things should shift and we're required to host a mail cluster that has > over, oh say 200,000 users, how would I effectively host a mail cluster if > 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? I believe the Cyrus IMAP/POP servers are designed such that mail users don't have normal login accounts on the server box. No idea whether it can scale to more than 64K users though. Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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