I somewhat didnt completely follow ur answer. Is that u have all your aliases stored in mysql table which u then populate in /etc/aliases maybe by some shell scripts ?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Cameron Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 5:01 AM Subject: Re: Sendmail and a BIG alias file > 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 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.330 / Virus Database: 184 - Release Date: 2/28/02 _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
