Can you provide me with a link to such patches (that work with qmail-ldap)
Kevin Ying wrote:
Taymour, for 13K users, using a soft or hard symbolic link should be
do-able on the filesystem to avoid all the internal processing required to
do 13K separate qmail-injects. You could use a system directory for your
bulletin and then symlink it into everyone's Maildir/new/ directory. Do
note that you need to make the file writable by the users so they can
delete it. On our non-single UID system, we had to make the bulletin
0666. If you are using a single UID, then 0600 should work.
A method that I like even better than that is using one of the many
patches out there that will only deliver the bulletin as part of a POP3 or
IMAP mail retrieval such that users will only get the bulletin if they are
actually using their mail account.
Another thing to be aware of is using the bulletin or POP/IMAP3 bulletin
patch method will not deliver the message to your users that are using
forward-only accounts or auto-reply accounts. That's perhaps one of the
advantages of using qmail-inject as that will evaluate any forwarding or
replying that exist on a per-account basis. We had to put this logic into
our bulletin script to avoid missing accounts that never checked local
mail but rather used their mailbox as a transit system.
Hope that helps...
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Taymour A. El Erian wrote:
I have a case in which I need to send a bulletin (e-mail greeting
composed in HTML) to all my customers, who use IMP webmail and POP3/IMAP
access to get their e-mail, how can this be done other than using
qmail-inject with a shell script
note. I have about 13K users
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