Re: 500.000+ users mailserver

[Mark Delany]

At 14:23 4/03/99 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>Peter van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> What I meant to say was: NIS has the same limitations as your OS. If
>> your OS limits uids at 64K, NIS won't limit you any further, neither
>> will it help you break that barrier.
>
>Right.  If you're running SunOS, you do have to worry about >32K UIDs.
>And you still have to worry about >64K UIDs in most operating systems;
>support for larger things is pretty spotty.

Indeed. Of course if the core OS supports >64K, and qmail does, then on a 
dedicated mail system it really doesn't matter if a bunch of external stuff 
doesn't work too well as it's hardly, if ever, used.


Regards.