In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Davide Libenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm doing an SMTP / POP3 / Finger server that run on Linux & M$ WinNT that
>support an unlimited number of users and that is not linked to system user
>accounts.
>It is written in C++ using gcc in Linux and Visual C++ in M$
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Ronald Tin wrote:
> I am about to build a (group of?) e-mail server for
> a large number of users... more than 65536.
> Using Debian of course. :)
> It should include SMTP and IMAP. Users do not need to have
> login accounts.
> Probably I will be using Potato.
>
> What should
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 07:21:49PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, William Burrow wrote:
> > You design your server to separate the paths that users are permitted to
> > access in a consistent, logical manner. The fact that a path exists to
> > the user does not mean it maps dir
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 06:27:58PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
> So can exim. The problem is not delivering email via smtp ... the problem
> is accessing it via IMAP. If you have >64K users, how do you set
> permissions so that one user can not deduce the path to another user's
> directory and pote
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, George Bonser wrote:
> NOT want to be able to type the path to another user's directory and see
> their mail (or they, mine). My mail folders need to be unreadable by any
> other user except me and the mail delivery program.
That is why you integrate the proper security meas
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 06:27:58PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, William Burrow wrote:
>
> > qmail can handle an unlimited number of users in an unlimited number of
> > domains using the likes of vchkpw. Check out:
>
> So can exim. The problem is not delivering email via smt
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 05:11:54AM +0800, Ronald Tin wrote:
> How could I deliver mails to accounts that don't really
> exist? (I can't allocate 10 uids on a single machine, right?)
> I have only read the FAQ and anatomy for postfix
> Shall I play with the "mailbox transport" option for
> l
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Ronald Tin wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 05:07:53PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
> > I've seen setups like these being mentioned in the Postfix ML (more than one
> > person there claimed more than 10 users under Cyrus IMAPD+Postfix).
>
> Sorry if this question look
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
> Postfix is very easy to setup, very light on the cpu and is engineered for
> security and speed (runs in a chroot jail in debian's default configuration,
Hmm... my bad here. Debian's postfix can be very easily set to run chrooted
(just change a bun
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 05:07:53PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
> > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> > > It should include SMTP and IMAP. Users do not need to have login
> > > accounts. Probably I will be using Potato.
> > >
> > > What should I start with?
> >
> >
> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> > It should include SMTP and IMAP. Users do not need to have login
> > accounts. Probably I will be using Potato.
> >
> > What should I start with?
>
> Either exim or postfix, definitely - they're very easy to configure. I've
> not h
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> I am about to build a (group of?) e-mail server for
> a large number of users... more than 65536.
Ooh... that's quite a few :)
> Using Debian of course. :)
A noble cause!
> It should include SMTP and IMAP. Users do not need to have l
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