> However, had the proper cable been available, we would have been
> greatly overly complicating matters.
Indeed, your "proper cable" already exists in the form of the
"everything but" recipient list in ORF, as I mentioned in my last
message. I think you should use it.
> I guess what I'm saying is if you can do it without LDAP or
> ActiveDirectory, why not do it without LDAP or ActiveDirectory.
There's a difference between doing it and doing it right, of course.
For your environment and traffic, ORF alone might well do it right, so
go for it. My issue is with encouraging the _development_ of subpar or
non-scaleable solutions. If the application _already exists_, on the
other hand, it should be used and tweaked in as many ways as you can
(witness our continued use of IMail!). :)
> I just think that supporting a distributed LDAP environment is
> unnecessary if done solely for the purpose of storing several
> hundred to several tens of thousands of E-mail addresses.
Several hundred in an unindexed in-memory array would probably work
jsut fine. Tens of thousands is a very, very different story. Again,
you seem to be missing the point in thinking these two situations
don't present different requirements. "Solely for the purpose of
scaleability" is one of the purest and most commendable motivations in
application design, since it encompasses both "in the wild" stability
and performance under a simple umbrella. Far from a dirty word,
scaleability is what makes so many open-source projects work in the
enterprise, despite their many other foibles. If you start a
development project with an express disregard for it, count out the
most capable programmers.
--Sandy
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