Re: qmail and > 4,000 users ?

[Sam]

On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Chris McCarthy wrote:

> With the passwd and shadow files containing so many entries, will the
> password lookups take forever ?

Maybe not forever, but with lotsa mail going through, it's definitely
going to be a bottleneck.

> Does this sound OK, or should we look at buying (or developing)  hotmail
> style software instead ?

You don't need to buy anything.  Just use some user account database.