Chris McCarthy wrote: > > 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). A POP demon is included w/ qmail, but IMAP is an entirely different story. Though 10K users can be handled using /etc/passwd without problems, you should consider qmail-ldap. It will give you flexibility, scalability and ease administration once you're familiar with it. > > 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. Markus
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