On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 05:11:54AM +0800, Ronald Tin wrote: > How could I deliver mails to accounts that don't really > exist? (I can't allocate 100000 uids on a single machine, right?) > I have only read the FAQ and anatomy for postfix.... > Shall I play with the "mailbox transport" option for > local delivery, or do I create local users with same uid > (and disable their login) ? Do the 2nd solution really work? > > But still it doesn't seem very efficient to store 100000 files > in a single mail spool directory? ... > > > The MTA won't give you any problems - they typically don't care about the > > > password database. However, here's another reason why you don't want to > > But the MTA have to lookup the local user from the password > database.. and mails are stored under owner's uid. > That's the case for sendmail and exim at least.
qmail can handle an unlimited number of users in an unlimited number of domains using the likes of vchkpw. Check out: http://www.qmail.org qmail is highly efficient and designed to be secure. It does have its quirks though.... -- William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada A 'box' is something that accomplishes a task -- you feed in input and out comes the output, just as God and Larry Wall intended. -- brian moore
