Re: [IMail Forum] DataBase

[Ricardo Freire]

>It is fairly widely known that MS's NT user database (NOT talking about SQL here, as you confusedly interject) is not >recommended by MS for much over 10,000 users.  Yet another example of MS's excellent systems design/innovation a la Gates.  >Nearly 10 years after Novell innovated with NDS, "innovative" MS still can't deliver, can't even imitate, a workable equivalent. I know nothing about NDS, but NT SAM was not designed to hold thousands of people from a network. One should use MS domain structure, which permits an unlimited number of people - provided one organize those people in manageable domains (each one with tipically less than 5000 accounts), with or without trust relationships between them.   I think Imail does a great job by offering such a flexible approach: we have 3 choices to accomodate our user accounts. But while talking about MS local account structure, we see an application (IMail) using this feature to hold thousands of email accounts. It was not designed for this purpose, so we should not blame MS. What we shall do is use the proper "user database" for IMail. And if you have tens of thousands of email users, the "proper" user database shouldn't be local NT user database.   We have nearly 4000 email users, so we use IMail internal user database, and it's just great. If we had 40000 users, we'd rather use MSSQL to hold them.   Best Regards,   Ricardo Freire, MCP