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Subject: Re: Virtual local delivery agent
From: Andrew McNamara (andrewmconnect.com.au)
Date: Mon Feb 14 2000 - 19:21:37 CST

>We have postfix+virtual in production! We've arranged two postfix boxes on
>two-processor U250s, with a maildir system on a mounted nfs. It works fine!
>Don't blame me for using NFS: It was definded previously... :-(

Egads - I wasn't convinced "virtual" was ready for production use -
please take care.

>I found something interesting about virtual: After a week running, and 12000
>mail users starting to change their MUA setting to point to our servers,
>/var/nfs/domain.com started populating with user dir entries. Almost all of
>them have 700 permissions, but some user directory are 777.

I'd suggest you create the user's directories before they receive e-mail.

I can't say why user directories would be created with mode 0777 -
maybe your popper is also creating directories?

>My uid regexp map is pretty simple:
>
>/.*.*/ 101
>
>where 101 is postfix user uid. gid regexp is very similar, but with mail
>gid. This regexp may not be the best one, but I cannot think of a "non
>matching" userdomain.com case.

Wouldn't this be the same (and faster)?

// 101

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Andrew McNamara (System Architect)

connect.com.au Pty Ltd
Lvl 3, 213 Miller St, North Sydney, NSW 2060, Australia
Phone: +61 2 9409 2117, Fax: +61 2 9409 2111