On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Adrian Ho wrote:
> Why use a program delivery when you can use .qmail forward directives?
> "man dot-qmail" for details, and create the necessary .qmail files
> (probably .qmail-youralias in the same directory you put your domain's
> .qmail-default).
Well, there's over 10,000 e-mail addresses that would have to be
forwarded. Wouldn't I have to create a .qmail-<name> file for everyone in
the MySQL database (would there be a filesystem efficiency issue when I
have 10,000 files in the directory?), and also keep these files
synchronized with inserts, updates and deletes done to the MySQL database?
I figure that it's cleaner, programming-wise, to just lookup the MySQL
database at the time a message is received rather than having to worry
about synchronization. But this lookup script has increased the load
average of the server above 10.
