Re: Qmail's user database

[D. J. Bernstein]

Andrew Richards writes:
>    - How long would it take to rebuild a file for, say, 100000 users
>      on a powerful machine (say good Sun or dual-Pentium)?

Roughly 5 seconds. Try it and see for yourself.

>    - Is Qmail tied to using cdb as its mailbox-lookup mechanism,
>      or could a back-end database be used, to accept new users
>      on the fly without having to rebuild a 'static' database periodically?

You can run any program you want from ~alias/.qmail-default.

---Dan