Horton, Dave wrote:
I'm relatively knowledgeable about IMAP, but a newbie to UW IMAP
toolkit, so apologies in advance if this is a particularl obvious or
particularly dumb question...
I'm building an application that requires a large number of accounts
(thousands to tens of thousands), each account containing an INBOX with
a relatively small number of messages at any point in time (~6-10
messages per mailbox on average). I really don't want to create a UNIX
user for each user in my application; that doesn't seem scalable to me.
Does the toolkit support any alternative model whereby I can create
accounts on the IMAP server with user/password authentication, without
the overhead of creating/managing a UNIX user account for each?
Hi Dave.
We have looked into this and the only potential solution seems to be to
use NSS/MySQL. I.e. use the NSS hooks to make a queries for user
information hit MySQL instead. We have not actually tried this and thus
don't know if UW IMAPD does anything that would not work with NSS. Mark
could probably answer that question.
-Erik Kangas
LuxSci.com
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