[Dovecot] POP3 protection

[Odhiambo WASHINGTON]

* On 02/12/06 22:00 +0100, Jos Chrispijn wrote:
| Jasper Bryant-Greene schreef (02-12-06 20:51):
| >Which is why, if your mail is really that important, you get a proper
| >cluster of database servers. A text file is *not* going to scale to any
| >sort of real volume.
| >  
| A proper cluster of database servers? I am allready happy that I have 
| one (1) BSD server online!
| My real volume is about <= 80 usr max (of which one has to use webmail 
| and the rest volunterarly).
| 
| cheers,
| Jos

Okay, Jos is just starting up administering e-mail services. One server, 
79 users max ;)

If you look at http://www.bsdstats.org/countries.php, item #16, you will
see what I mean. All those servers reported there are installed/managed
by me, and mail-wise, none of them has less than 100 users, each with 
some weird requirement.
So, a database-driven setup still makes alot of sense to me, even for 79
users:

SQL>update users set pop3 = '0' where username = 'jos at domain.tld';

That is faster than
cd /some/directory/path
vi somefilename
add entries
restart daemon (perhaps)

With that single sql query, all servers contacting the DB for data 
(directly or by replication) will already be aware of the restriction I've
put on pop3 service to user jos.

Over to you, Jos.


-Wash


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