Re: [EXIM] Virtual user table

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Paul Brown
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] Virtual user table
On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Paul Brown wrote:

> I have tried altering the search_type directive to:
>    search_type = dbm*@

>
> which mentioned that it will search the dbm file, look for *@domain, if *
> is not set (ie, if mail is sent to fred@???, * will find fred@???
> if it is in the mailertable dbm file. If it does not find fred@??? it
> will send to the foo.default.mbox because there is not match - hope that
> makes sense ;)
>
> exim paniced and threw me out. I tried adding a query directive, but i
> could not find a valid optionin the documentation ( all there was was
> nisplus, ldap, dnsdb, testdb ), none of which seem to apply here (of
> course, i am dying to stand corected ;)


Please send me more details of "paniced and threw me out". Try running
Exim with debugging set and in address testing more, e.g.

exim -d9 -bt fred@???

to get more information as to what it is doing. The *@ feature is new in
1.90, so may have problems.

> I am setting up Exim to replace sendmail on our existing mailserver. We
> deal with about 250 simultaneous requests in the afternoon (not too sure
> about the evening, not sure i want to know). Does anyone know how many
> simultaneous request Exim can handle at once (not what i set it up as in
> the config, but what it is capable of...)


Since it spawns a new process for each incoming message, the limit is
really on your hardware and operating system. However, you can set a
limit on Exim's daemon via smtp_accept_max.

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Philip Hazel                   University Computing Service,
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