New install - problems

[Jerzy Ba³amut]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 08:59:45AM +0200, Chris Picton wrote:

> I have the following setup:
> 
> 3 POP servers mounting a common NFS mail spool and 3 MX servers 
> delivering to this spool using postfix. (They are actually the same 3 
> machines)
> 
> The mail spool is in maildir format.
> 
> I have about 15000 mail accounts.  I do not have local user accounts on 
> each of the machines for these users. Rather, I am using PAM 
> authenticating the ussers off a remote RADIUS system (which is also used 
> for dial up)
> 
> I had to modify the solid-pop3d code slightly to allow this.  All 
> maildirs are owned by user 'mail'.
> 
> My spop3d.conf:
> 
> <Global>
>   LogPriority    local1.info
>   MailDropName   /var/spool/mail/%s
>   MailDropType   maildir
>   UserOverride   false
>   ChangeGID      false
>   LogStatistics    true
>   UserBullFile   /var/spool/mail/server-bulletins/users/%s
>   BulletinDirectory /var/spool/mail/server-bulletins/bulletins
>   AddBulletins   true
> </Global>
> 
> 
> 
> My questions:
> 
> Is solid-pop3d (ver 0.15) stable (solid) enough for this setup (I am 
> using inetd)?

I think it is (I hope :). I know some server with SolidPOP which handles
about 100,000 accounts and they haven't big problems with it.


> How will it handle the same user connecting at the same time on two of 
> the servers?

Yes. Multiple access to the same maildir is allowed.

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