Re: [Exim] Planning for Exim 4

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Author: Yann Golanski
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To: Philip Hazel
CC: Yann Golanski, exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Planning for Exim 4
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:19:30AM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Yann Golanski wrote:
> > Could there be an option that Exim *never* runs as root.
>
> There is already. See "security = unprivileged".


DHO.

> That's 10,000 access to a hints database in 10 minutes ... 1000 per
> minute. Don't you think that might be a bottleneck? However, if you are
> using a daemon, there's no need - there's only one daemon, so it can
> count in memory. Hmm. No. It can count *connections* but not *messages*.
> See the existing smtp_accept_max_per_host option. But maybe some shared
> memory could be used for counting messages.


Well... true. We actully do it, but not with those numbers. It's a
database look and works on ripping through log files. Very ugly but it
works rather well.

> > Again a hint database maybe usefull? ... if Exim discovers that there is
> > a full mailbox, right the localpart (whatever) to the full_mbox.*db.
>
> And then you modify all your MUAs to remove this hint when they empty
> the mailbox??????


Hum... with a time to live?

Okay, totaly impractical.

> > > Internals
> >
> > I am intrested... ;> who said I was sane again?
>
> I'll send you my scrappy list (written for me, not for the world).


Thanks.

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Dr Yann Golanski                                      Senior Developer
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