Try virtual user accounts.. why does the user need a *real* login on the system if all 
they are doing is receiving mail.  there are many documents on this.

-miah

On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:18:34PM -0800, Chuck Carson wrote:
> 
> Yea,
> 
> We are a top level domain and our offering email addresses so the need for
> this many account is necessary. What other solutions do you know of?
> 
> -Chuck
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Galpin [mailto:         
> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 3:39 PM
> To: Red Hat Mailing List (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: Supporting more than 65535 UID's under 6.2
> 
> 
> Sorry Chuck, I don't have an answer for you. I am however fascinated when
> I hear requests like this. Would you mind sharing what kind of
> application requires this (I'm guessing a pop/imap server) and what kind
> of "iron" you use.
> 
> btw, if it is for a pop/imap server, you can avoid creating accounts for
> every user with some servers/configurations that use a database instead.
> 
> thanks
> charles
> 
> On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Chuck Carson wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Is it possible under the 2.2.x kernels to support greater than 2^16 UID's?
> > If so, is it a patch or entirely new kernel we need to look at?
> > 
> > Thanks greatly,
> > CC
> > 
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