Re: [cobalt-users] Extra Raq or what?

[Brent Sims <bs@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Zarrir Junior wrote:

} Has someone found a reasonable way around the following situation: 2000
} users to be distributed among 150 virtual sites, each of these virtual sites
} are vanity email domains which have surnames after @ like:
}    user1@xxxxxxxxxx   user2@xxxxxxxxxx  user3@xxxxxxxx

Hi Zarrir,

	I think you're going about this all wrong. Virtual email
hosting on this magnitude is not at all uncommon. There's a wide
choice of commercial applications that can be bought, numerous
outsourcing opportunities are available, and it can be done quite
easily with readily available GNU/GPL software (search 'virtual
email' - sans the quotes - on freshmeat.net). The vast majority of
these solutions don't require the creation of actual user accounts.
Some of them may run on a Cobalt without breaking the GUI... some
may not.

	The point is that functionality such as you require is best
approached backwards. Rather than select a platform and then try to
figure out how to accomplish what you wish to accomplish with the
tools that platform provides, I'd suggest you'd be much better off
selecting your vision of the best possible tool for the job and then
obtaining the platform most suitable for powering that tool.

	Peace be with you,

	Brent Sims, Customer Service Manager
	WebOkay Internet Services, LLC
	http://www.WebOkay.net
	mailto: Brent@xxxxxxxxxxx
	(719) 595-1427 (Voice/Fax)