Re: Mail servers for large numbers of users

1999-12-12 Thread William Burrow
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 05:11:54AM +0800, Ronald Tin wrote: How could I deliver mails to accounts that don't really exist? (I can't allocate 10 uids on a single machine, right?) I have only read the FAQ and anatomy for postfix Shall I play with the mailbox transport option for local

Re: Mail servers for large numbers of users

1999-12-12 Thread William Burrow
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 06:27:58PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, William Burrow wrote: qmail can handle an unlimited number of users in an unlimited number of domains using the likes of vchkpw. Check out: So can exim. The problem is not delivering email via smtp ...

Re: Mail servers for large numbers of users

1999-12-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, George Bonser wrote: NOT want to be able to type the path to another user's directory and see their mail (or they, mine). My mail folders need to be unreadable by any other user except me and the mail delivery program. That is why you integrate the proper security

Re: Mail servers for large numbers of users

1999-12-12 Thread William Burrow
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 06:27:58PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: So can exim. The problem is not delivering email via smtp ... the problem is accessing it via IMAP. If you have 64K users, how do you set permissions so that one user can not deduce the path to another user's directory and

Re: Mail servers for large numbers of users

1999-12-12 Thread William Burrow
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 07:21:49PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, William Burrow wrote: You design your server to separate the paths that users are permitted to access in a consistent, logical manner. The fact that a path exists to the user does not mean it maps directly

Re: Mail servers for large numbers of users

1999-12-12 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Ronald Tin wrote: I am about to build a (group of?) e-mail server for a large number of users... more than 65536. Using Debian of course. :) It should include SMTP and IMAP. Users do not need to have login accounts. Probably I will be using Potato. What should I start

Re: Mail servers for large numbers of users

1999-12-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Davide Libenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm doing an SMTP / POP3 / Finger server that run on Linux M$ WinNT that support an unlimited number of users and that is not linked to system user accounts. It is written in C++ using gcc in Linux and Visual C++ in M$-Win and

Mail servers for large numbers of users

1999-12-11 Thread Ronald Tin
I am about to build a (group of?) e-mail server for a large number of users... more than 65536. Using Debian of course. :) It should include SMTP and IMAP. Users do not need to have login accounts. Probably I will be using Potato. What should I start with? Are there good open sourced MTA and IMAP

Re: Mail servers for large numbers of users

1999-12-11 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... I am about to build a (group of?) e-mail server for a large number of users... more than 65536. Ooh... that's quite a few :) Using Debian of course. :) A noble cause! It should include SMTP and IMAP. Users do not need to have

Re: Mail servers for large numbers of users

1999-12-11 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... It should include SMTP and IMAP. Users do not need to have login accounts. Probably I will be using Potato. What should I start with? Either exim or postfix, definitely - they're very easy to configure. I've not had any

Re: Mail servers for large numbers of users

1999-12-11 Thread Ronald Tin
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 05:07:53PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... It should include SMTP and IMAP. Users do not need to have login accounts. Probably I will be using Potato. What should I start with? Either exim or

Re: Mail servers for large numbers of users

1999-12-11 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: Postfix is very easy to setup, very light on the cpu and is engineered for security and speed (runs in a chroot jail in debian's default configuration, Hmm... my bad here. Debian's postfix can be very easily set to run chrooted (just change a

Re: Mail servers for large numbers of users

1999-12-11 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Ronald Tin wrote: On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 05:07:53PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: I've seen setups like these being mentioned in the Postfix ML (more than one person there claimed more than 10 users under Cyrus IMAPD+Postfix). Sorry if this question looks