My company wants to provide users on the internet with a free email service ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). We'll be starting off with about 3,000 users, potentially growing up to 10,000 in the next 12 months. How feasible is it to create a passwd/shadow entry for each user, providing them with POP/IMAP access ? (or maybe just pop if imap puts too much load on the server). With the passwd and shadow files containing so many entries, will the password lookups take forever ? Our current server spec is a PIII 400, 256M, but we'll replace it with a high spec server if/when needed. Does this sound OK, or should we look at buying (or developing) hotmail style software instead ? Any ideas/comments appreciated, ..Chris.
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