[courier-users] Re: perlfilter questions

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Bowie Bailey writes:

> From: Sam Varshavchik [mailto:mrsam@courier-mta.com]
>>
>> Gordon Messmer writes:
>>
>> > Bowie Bailey wrote:
>> >>
>> >> That might work better. The only question is how well the alias system
>> >> scales. What would happen if I created an alias file with over 100,000
>> >> entries?
>> >
>> > There doesn't seem to be an appreciable difference between an alias file
>> > 2000 entries long, and one 102000 entries long. I'm not the most
>> > knowledgeable in dbm matters, but it looks like it scales pretty well.
>>
>> It will take a while for makealiases to chew through a huge alias list.
> But
>> that's about it, and mail delivery does not get affected.
>
> That may be the killer problem right there. Is there any way to add an
> alias to the database without having to rebuild the whole thing? Email
> addresses are going to be added to this system on a regular basis and
> the new addresses need to be available immediately.

Nope.

> I'm thinking that using LDAP aliases might be a better idea for this. Where
> can I find a good How-to for setting up an LDAP directory to work with
> Courier?

LDAP is definitely the way to go for huge alias lists. The db-based aliases
is really just a stop-gap measure to run a small site where a full-blown
LDAP setup would be overkill.

LDAP is a bear to set up. But, once everything is working right, there's
very little maintenance. It runs by itself.



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