Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 09:32:56 -0500 (CDT) From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: "Matthew Seaman" <matthew@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: OFF TOPIC: pw add user slow Message-ID: <32125.128.135.52.6.1476801176.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <3ceed8a7-50dd-2fd5-d110-4a77e43f36ad@freebsd.org> References: <fd1e578c-58ef-5098-9d89-c3db814d7af4@ifdnrg.com> <20161018074415.0f6575675db30d0b83d9b8ec@sohara.org> <60719.69.209.239.247.1476794773.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <20161018140531.GA1080@lime.woodcruft.co.uk> <3ceed8a7-50dd-2fd5-d110-4a77e43f36ad@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, October 18, 2016 9:21 am, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 10/18/16 15:05, Frank Shute wrote: >> Doesn't the imap server have an option for using a relational database >> rather >> than filling passwd up? I'd go for that option if it does. > > If we're talking about dovecot as the IMAP server in question, then, > yes, it can connect to a wide variety of databases for it's > authentication data. It can also read from an arbitrary passwd(7) > format file -- not the same as the system passwd file. > > On the scale the OP is working with, personally I'd not create 6000 unix > user accounts on the IMAP server: rather create a single account to own > all of the imap Maildirs and use a separate database of Mail user > accounts. This and other configuration patterns are discussed in detail > on the Dovecot wiki as I recall. I have off topic question. Just the other day I got warning that dovecot port currently has no maintainer. I was so happy with dovecot for over one and a half decades, so switching to something else doesn't give me good feelings. Anybody knows any more details about dovecot port? Thanks a lot for your answers! Valeri > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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