On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 03:39:35PM -0000, Andrew Richards wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking at Qmail as an option for providing E-mail for an ISP, that
> should be able to scale to hundreds of thousands of users. I have three
> questions on Qmail:
>
> - If system usernames/passwords are avoided (authentication instead
> being done by Radius), is there any upper limit on the number of
> users Qmail can handle?
I think that's only limited by the power of your system.
> - Noting that a common Qmail strategy is based around using NFS
> and server farms (front-end for SMTP/POP servers, back-end for
> mailstores), is it straightforward to have multiple mailstores (i.e.
> split mailboxes between NFS mounts)?
Yep. just use qmail-users to assign all users.
> - Any offers on the largest Qmail installation to date (number of users'
> mailboxes etc.)? The Qmail web site mentions that Qmail is used for
> hotmail's *outgoing* E-mail, but there is no mention of what Hotmail
> use for delivering mail to user's mailboxes.
I think hotmail has their own system for incoming mailboxes.
Greetz, Peter.
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