Hi
The main reason for this, is that I have a belive (not verified.so if
someone has, please let me know) that if I have passwd file (normal unix
one) and the number of users increases substantially say to 50000, then
things may slow down, when authentication is done for the popper. Hence
using exim has allowed me partially to do that, in that I can drop mail
without having a user account, but it would be nice to have a popper
which authenticated from say a database or dbm file etc, just to speed
things up
Iqbal
Marc Haber wrote:
>
> On Mon, 14 Sep 1998 13:00:59 +0100, you wrote:
> >To complement this setup is that a pop daemon
> >which will suthenticate without the use of a /etc/passwd file eg a
> >database,
>
> How are you going to authenticate without holding authentication data?
>
> Sven Paulus has patched a qpopper so that it reads its user data from
> a cleartext password file (which I probably will patch to use crypt()
> once I learn about UNIX security).
>
> I have heard that the qmail popper can do the same thing. You'd have
> to slice the qmail popper out of the qmail package (which does not
> seem too easy to do) and to have exim deliver into a mailq (which I
> believe it can do).
>
> ON a second thought, the mailq concept starts to intrigue me more and
> more - the "no locks" argument is a strong one.
>
> Greetings
> Marc
>
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