Le Mardi 19 Juillet 2005 00:34, Jay Lee a écrit : > Cam wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm still trying to plan out my courier mail setup. Right now i'm > > trying to figure out which authentication module i want to use. I > > really like the looks of the userdb stuff (really what i'm looking for > > is a way to give people mail accounts w/out giving them real > > user/shell accounts). so userdb looks perfect in that respect. I've > > also thought about ldap authentication... i don't really know anything > > about ldap, but i've heard it's very scalable (from the docs i've read > > on openldap.org it seems that multiple servers can balance the load). > > The setup i have going on here looks like it could get fairly large > > (maybe 200,000 users in the long term), but i'm not sure if that > > justifies ldap or not (especially since i have no existing ldap > > directory). Anyway, it looks like courier is able to handle multiple > > authentication schemes quite nicely, so maybe i could go w/ userdb at > > first and then if necessary add ldap at a later date. Are my > > assumptions wrong? > > If there is any chance at all that you may eventually want your users to > have the same username/password for other services (FTP, shell, Web > applications, etc), then by all means, use LDAP. As Sam said, you can > get things going and learn Courier with a simple userdb setup but you > need to start digging into OpenLDAP soon to and tame that beast. > > Jay
LDAP or MySQL or PostgreSQL. What is the best in term of CPU load ? For me LDAP is the most difficult to learn. Yvonne ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77&alloc_id492&op=click _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
