I've searched around and haven't come up with anything definative and
was hoping someone here could just point me in the right direction, I'm
sure this has come up in the past, but my searches aren't coming up with
what I'm looking for.
It appears since there are so many accounts it takes the serv
Richard Pickett wrote:
> I've searched around and haven't come up with anything definative and
> was hoping someone here could just point me in the right direction, I'm
> sure this has come up in the past, but my searches aren't coming up with
> what I'm looking for.
>
> It appears since there ar
Richard Pickett wrote:
> Any ideas?
You haven't mentioned the details of your setup, but you'll see an
immediate improvement in response times and reduction in load if you
mount the volume/partition that the mail spools/mailboxes reside on
using the "noatime" option.
You may also get a perform
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It appears since there are so many accounts it takes the server a long
> time to parse the directory entries to get to the correct account when
> someone is (a) receiving email or (b) reading their email. This equals
> more load on the server and over time I'm sure we'r
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Richard Pickett wrote:
>
> We'd like to implement a solution where the accounts are split across
> multiple machines, but how to split (a) the incoming email to it's
> correct backend email server and (b) the pop3/webmail requests to the
> correct backend servers. I know I can
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 13:25 -0700, Jaye Mathisen wrote:
> It would seem that hashing your home directories, like /home/a/u/ausername,
> woudl eliminate most of that.
>
> Saves you the money of having to buy multiple machines.
I agree 100%.
I'm *not* an expert w/ exim (hey, I might not even qua
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Richard Pickett wrote:
> (a) how do I modify it to pull the first and second character off of the user
> name to "hash"?
Use one of Exim's built-in "hash" operators. You'll get a more even
spread than taking the first or even the first two characters. Grep for
hash in the
Philip Hazel schrieb:
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Richard Pickett wrote:
>
>> (a) how do I modify it to pull the first and second character off of the
>> user name to "hash"?
>
> Use one of Exim's built-in "hash" operators. You'll get a more even
> spread than taking the first or even the first two
The downside of using md5/sha type hashes, is writing other utilities
that may not be exim related, but still mail-server-maintenance related.
imap, pop clients, other utilities, etc.
Not insurmountable, just a pain.
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Hi,
Well we use for authentication LDAP as a backend and store there
several values, you can use any other DB backend as well, but I think
a strait-forward LDAP always will perform faster...
Nas-Server:nas-xx
Nas-Path:/srv/mail The hash is generated
by the provisioning system.
The S
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