On 03-Mar-99 Krzysztof Dabrowski wrote:
> Hello.
>
> We are in the planing stage of a 500.000+ users mailserver (pop & smtp
> only, no shell's or anything).
> During our brainstorm we've came to few questions:
>
> We assume that every account will run on the same UID (to break 65k uid's
> limit).
>
> a) how can we arrange an universal group-quota in this kind of system? we
> don't want to use unix groups because it would limit us to 65k groups and
> we don't want it. And keep in mind that we need a FAST solutions as quotas
> has to be checked/changed on every delivery/download.
Use FreeBSD. It has 32bit UID's (there maybe other OS's with that). Give each
user a different UID.
> b) what is the fastes database system that we can use for
> authentication/user info (like maildir location etc.). It doesn't have to
> be a relational one, only thing that is important is SPEED. If this
> database will be used also for quota storage then also
> modification/addition speed is important.
CDB's. Use a relational database (like Mysql) to store the info and generate
the CDB's each 10 minutes for example.
C Ya
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