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Re: postfix and thousands unix user

From: Jeroen Geilman <jeroen_at_nospam>
Date: Mon Nov 08 2010 - 08:19:46 GMT
To: postfix-users@postfix.org

On 11/08/2010 06:55 AM, ahmad riza h nst wrote:
> hello,
>
> currently i am new to postfix and at the moment i have a task to setup
> mail server with postfix, dovecot and webmin.
>

Ugh. Don't attempt to manage the system with webmin until you have solid
expierence in configuring it by hand.
In other words, don't set it up.

> this system would host hundreds of virtual domains, so thousands of
> virtual emails was expected.
>

Okay.

> postfix : 2.6.7
> dovecot: 2.0.6
> centos 5.x
> webmin
>
> since i don't have any experience in postfix then i hope somebody in
> this list would like to share their experiences regarding postfix and
> virtual domain with thousands unix user.
>

That doesn't make much sense.
Virtual users are differentiated by not having a Unix system account.

You want to read http://www.postfix.org/VIRTUAL_README.html
> or maybe any links would be good :)
>

Here's some more:

http://www.postfix.org/BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README.html

http://www.postfix.org/STANDARD_CONFIGURATION_README.html

-- J.