On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 07:29:34PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > this already does forward and reverse name lookups. With the volumes of mail
> > we transfer, I don't want to involve yet another process.
>
> The results of those lookups are saved in env.vars, so that other process
> takes hardly any time to run.
That is not the issue. Launching the other program is what takes time,
especially on 'heavy' unixes like Solaris.
> I'm working hard on a checkpassword replacement to do multi-domain stuff -
> one UID per domain for all popboxes (and also FTP and shell on that UID, for
> website maintenance), instead of one UID per popbox (our current sendmail
> setup).
We already have this (based on our own LDAP/qmail setup). Works like a
charm. We currenly host ~30.000 cablemodem users per Sun Enterprise 250
(single cpu). A whole lot more than sendmail+cucipop could handle.
Regards,
bert hubert.
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