On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 01:18 -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote:
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> Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > 1. Ability to do Virtual Mail Hosting
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> courier-mta
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> > 2. Ability to support local Users (see note)
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> Courier. I had both local (/etc/passwd) accounts, and virtual-domain+user 
> accounts on the same
> server (7000+ accounts total, SQL+/etc/passwd (via PAM))

Just wondering, can I say, have a virtual domain user [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(where localdomain is really local but just hosted as a virtual domain)
which can have SSH/FTP access using the same password to access their
email?

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> > 3. Scalable
> 
> Courier-MTA (includes courier-imap)
> 
> DON'T THINK ABOUT DOVECOT for really scalable installations. after 5000+ it 
> gets quite slow.

Thanks for the heads up then. Is the slowness attibuted to lookups to
passwords or some other issues?

> > 4. Support for flat file Passwords(/etc/passwd) or LDAP/MySQL 
> 
> Courier-MTA (includes courier-imap)


Hmm... I see a general preference towards courier here. Just curious,
have you tried cyrus at all? If yes, what are it's shortcomings?

Thanks

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