Re: [cobalt-users] Most users on a RaQ3?

[SM <nntp@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 17:02 27-08-2001 -0700, House of Jupiter wrote:
>But say the limit is 500, and I need 700 users for one domain.  What do I do
>then?  I don't mind eventually putting one domain per server, as I am being
>paid per user not per domain, but if ultimately I have a limit of so many
>users, how do I get around this?  Yahoo must have millions of
>myaddress@xxxxxxxxx users, and they seem to manage it.  Any ideas?

Yahoo uses FreeBSD servers.  If you are going to have hundreds of
mailboxes, you don't create a (system) user per mailbox.  You have a SQL DB
against which Sendmail checks whether the user mailbox is valid.  There is
a Sendmail hack which allows you to use either PostgreSQL or MySQL.  If
your users are going to retrieve their email through POP3, you will also
have to modify Qpopper (or your POP3 server) to lookup the DB for
authentication.

You can implement the above scenario on a RAQ but it would break the GUI
and also void your warranty.

Regards,
-sm