On 09:07 26 Apr 2002, Leonardo Rodrigues Magalh?es <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > On 08:30 26 Apr 2002, Pieter De Wit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | I know this might be kinda off topic, but since everyone here is in the | > | field, I thought I would pop the question here. | > | How well does sendmail handle a *big* alias file (around 20000 entries) | ? Is | > | there another way to handle such big alias requirements ? | > Keeps it in a dbm file. We have over 40000 aliases at work; works just | fine. | I'd strongly suggest that you try postfix+MySQL, so you can have all | your aliases ( and accounts if you want as well ) as MySQL tables.
Bleah. No, instead I keep a structured representation of our staff groupings and mailing lists and permission groups in MySQL tables and compute the entire alias table from that. Much cleaner and more effective. You can all sorts of handy utility aliases in this fashion (eg the script inverts the home directories and makes aliases for "users whose homedirs are on server X", etc). -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ The mountains will always be there, the trick is to make sure you are too. - Don Whilans This predates Whillans as it is used in the rec.back DW FAQ. There it is attributed to Hervey Voge. It probably predates Hervey. - eugene miya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
