multi-user [was: New Release: Bogofilter 1.0.0]

[David Relson]

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 19:48:44 -0500
Tom Allison wrote:

...[snip]...

> > 
> > Hi Tom,
> > 
> > There are people who have procmail running for many more than 3500
> > accounts.  I suspect you meant "bogofilter" in that last sentence.
> > 
> > Of course, there's at least 1 bogofilter installation (a Canadian
> > university) with 60,000+ accounts :->
> > 
> > In any case, the usual issue with multiple accounts is whether to have
> > a system wordlist or individual wordlists and how to do updates.  I
> > suspect you're worried about the individual wordlist scenario, which
> > could well use require lots of disk space.
> > 
> > With a system wordlist, the simplest thing to do is only allow the sys
> > admin to update it.  Have users forward mistakes to the sys admin who
> > checks them and does updates.  Allowing users to do their own updates
> > isn't such a great idea, AFAICT.
> > 
> 
> That's some impressive bogofilter stats.
> 
> I guess what I'm not clear on is how you would run that many accounts on a mail 
> server today.  The typical approach for procmail is to have it configured for 
> each user (passwd) on the system.  But for 60,000 email accounts (or any large 
> number) you don't want them all to have their own account but use virtual 
> accounts.  Under that approach I'm not sure how you would configure 
> procmail/bogofilter to play nice (even if you did use individual bogofilter 
> wordlists).

Hi Tom,

I don't recall the details :-<

Google for "bogofilter +toronto +university" and you'll find relevant material.

David