Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 20:41:36 +0100 From: "Jonathan Defries" <jonathan@corpex.com> To: "Freebsd-Isp@Freebsd. Org" <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Password Distribution / Email Message-ID: <NEBBJLAOAKHHJLPLDLPIEEKFCLAA.jonathan@corpex.com> In-Reply-To: <20000728165343.53332.qmail@staff.nyi.net>
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Agreed,
I'm running with over 3k virtual domains and a some /etc/passwd
ones as well and it works brilliantly.
No more R?$$$ stuff either :) (I know you don't have to get your
hands dirty in sendmail.cf anymore, but that was a scary experience
a few years back!
The only thing I am lacking, if anyone can help, is a simple way
of parsing the message ID from a message for the qmail-command
options. I really don't want to have to spool standard input to
a file or memory to do this and there is no variable in the
environment to log the message ID.
TIA
Jonathan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of javier
> Sent: 28 July 2000 17:54
> To: Michael Barnett
> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Re: Password Distribution / Email
>
>
>
> Have you thought of migrating off of sendmail?
>
> Qmail + VPopmail would be a greta solution.
>
> Not only do you get rid of the hasle, and security risks of having
> so many system accounts, but you get speed an reliability thrown in.
>
> www.inter7.com/vpopmail/
>
> As far as scalability... the main maintainer has developed systems
> with over 50K users per domain, and i have setup the system on isp's
> with over 2K virtual domains at about 50 accounts per domain.
>
> Take a look at it.
>
>
>
> Michael Barnett writes:
>
> >
> > Everyone,
> >
> > We are redesigning our email scheme, and I am looking for an
> alternative
> > to pushing passwords around on dozens of machines. Right now,
> we have 10
> > mail machines for mail exchanging/pop access for our domain.
> (5 for mx ..
> > 5 for pop .. both setup on a VIP behind a Foundry load
> balancing switch).
> >
> > The 11th machine exports an nfs file system that all 10 machines mount
> > (deliver and cucipop have been hacked to look in the nfs mounted file
> > system as opposed to /var/mail)
> >
> > It also generates and pushes across the aliases, and creates the
> > master.passwd file and has each of the 10 individual machines rebuild
> > their local password file using the command
> >
> > /usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb -p -s 15 /etc/master.passwd
> >
> > There are currently 24054 entries in the master.passwd file, so this
> > process is going to be unmanageable very soon.
> >
> > We have a few ideas for getting pop to authenticate off of the
> database,
> > but even if we do this, we will still have to maintain the
> password files
> > for local delivery. Has anyone been successful in running a
> mail server
> > that does not contain the authoritative list of users, but gets this
> > information from some central location? (preferably from an sql
> > database).
> >
> >
> > Thanks for any insights.
> >
> > -Michael Barnett
> > CAIS Internet
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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