Options for immediate email address activation in postfix.

2009-05-14 Thread Scott Haneda
A client of mine has a web service where a simple web page can be made via a browser to crete an identity for them online. Build a page with web tools, toggle a setting to add DNS records, update the registrar to point to the NS's, and they have a live webpage in short order. They want to

Re: Options for immediate email address activation in postfix.

2009-05-14 Thread Barney Desmond
2009/5/15 Scott Haneda talkli...@newgeo.com: Any suggestions on the simplest way to approach this.  I was thinking postfix with MySql backed data store.  Today I read that RHEL is behind on postfix, and I think does not have MySql support in their rpm's.  I have zero access to a staging

Re: Options for immediate email address activation in postfix.

2009-05-14 Thread Martin Strand
At my company we're doing almost the exact same thing. FOr this we use Postfix on RHEL5 with MySQL for domains, users and aliases. With about ~10k accounts everything works great except the forwarding vs SPF problem, ie: 1. someu...@hotmail.com sends a message to i...@yourcustomer.com 2. your

Re: Options for immediate email address activation in postfix.

2009-05-14 Thread Scott Haneda
On May 14, 2009, at 6:07 PM, Barney Desmond wrote: If this turns into a high volume site, would file based aliases fall apart after a certain amount? I also see maintaining a alias mapping via a file managed by a web service to be prone to error. If anything I wold store the mappings in

Re: Options for immediate email address activation in postfix.

2009-05-14 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 06:48:07PM -0700, Scott Haneda wrote: Thank you very much, I do not think a million will be hit for some time. Is there any penalty when you run postmap to read in the changes to the virtual_alias_maps file? I know it is not a server restart, and can happen