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Subject: Re: Question about file parsing
From: Stijn de Bekker (stijnopeneye.nl)
Date: Wed Jun 07 2000 - 02:06:33 CDT

On Tue, Jun 06 2000, Wietse Venema wrote:
> Andy Dills:
> >
> > I'm looking to setup individual virtual forwarding files for each domain I
> > control, to make scripted administration easier and more secure (I'll be
> > giving the owner of each domain a URL via which they can modify the maps).
> >
> > My question is, what's the best way to tell postfix about the many files?
>
> Postfix is not designed to deal with thousands of virtual files.
> That would be very, very, very, slow, because it would have to
> search all the files.
>
> If you want separate adminstration of domains, generate the Postfix
> virtual database from individual per-domain files, or use d database
> such as LDAP or mysql.

Because of this reason, we're planning to move our virtual loopup maps
from hashed files to either MySQL or LDAP.

What's the difference between both map systems? Why should a stick
to LDAP or MySQL? Because of speed, flexibility, protocol design,
reliability ?

Stijn. 

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