Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 21:12:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: Michael Barnett <mbarnett@cais.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Password Distribution / Email Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007282111090.12106-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007270022380.44073-100000@nargul.systems.cais.net>
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On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Michael Barnett wrote: > 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). ... > There are currently 24054 entries in the master.passwd file, so this > process is going to be unmanageable very soon. This seems a little weird to me. 10 mail servers for 24,054 users? That seems like a lot of hardware. I've seen single machines handling 30,000 POP mailboxes easily. How many delivered messages do you average a day? Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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