I must get some sleep. Here's a proofread version of my reply :) On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:50:53 -0300 > > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > wrote: > > > > > I'm actually starting to think about giving each user > > > > > their own partition, since it's so little hassle. > > > > > > > > > Would that be feasable in an enviroment with 40.000 mail > > > > users ? ;-) > > > > > > Nah. But if you have 40000 mail users, and that translates > > > to 40000 Unix users in that box, well, you could be doing > > > much better :) There are many MTA+MDA+POP/IMAP that do not > > > require such nonsense :P > > > > Whay about nntp? > > What about NNTP? AFAIK it requires exactly one user on the NNTP server... > Although I have never had to deal directly with setting INN.
setting INN up, I mean. > That said, if you meant NNTP access to mail, well, I know Cyrus IMAPd v2.2 > has it (its spool accepts incoming data over LMTP, IMAP and NNTP, and > outgoing over POP3, IMAP and NNTP). And Cyrus needs only one user, for a virtually unlimited number of user accounts. Maybe it will choke if you give it more than 2^31 users, I am not in a state where I can dive into the Cyrus C code to root that out. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
