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Re: pop server in an ISP environment
From: Jim Mercer <jim () reptiles org>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 07:31:50 -0400
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 05:37:43PM +0800, Muljawan Hendrianto wrote:
I am thinking about using QPOPPER+procmail, but some people say that it is not scalable because its authentication is based on /etc/passwd. And in Unix environment there is certain recommendation not to have more than 5000 users in /etc/passwd file. Another issue is high availability, does any body use server clustering in an ISP environment? ps: the system should be able to accomodate about 20000 users.
i used to maintain one of the freenets. we had 60000+ accounts in the password file, which was shared with 8 machines using NIS on the older SunOS 4 (pre-solaris). we never had a problem with scaling. -- [ Jim Mercer jim () reptiles org +1 416 410-5633 ] [ Reptilian Research -- Longer Life through Colder Blood ] [ Don't be fooled by cheap Finnish imitations; BSD is the One True Code. ]
Current thread:
- pop server in an ISP environment Muljawan Hendrianto (May 26)
- Re: pop server in an ISP environment Jim Mercer (May 26)
- Re: pop server in an ISP environment John Butler (May 26)
- Re: pop server in an ISP environment ww (May 26)
- Re: pop server in an ISP environment Michael Shields (May 26)
- RE: pop server in an ISP environment Dmitri Krioukov (May 29)
- RE: pop server in an ISP environment Roeland Meyer (E-mail) (May 29)
- RE: pop server in an ISP environment Greg A. Woods (May 29)
- Re: pop server in an ISP environment Pat Myrto (May 29)
- RE: pop server in an ISP environment Roeland Meyer (E-mail) (May 29)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: pop server in an ISP environment Shawn McMahon (May 26)
- Re: pop server in an ISP environment Peter van Dijk (May 30)
- RE: pop server in an ISP environment Roeland M.J. Meyer (May 30)
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