my host only allows me to assign 1000 email addresses for my server. This is a hard limit that I have no way around unless I upgrade to a higher level plan. I have a solution that consists of having these three things:

1) a mysql database containing a list of my users

2) a single catch-all email address

3) a mail processing script that checks this address via crontab entry at a specified interval



NONE of the users in the mysql database have a actual email address on the system. Rather what they have is a "psuedo-email address". What is essentially happening here is that all mail addressed to anyone on the system is going into one account, that being the catch-all email address ( with headers set appropriately by the sending side of the transaction ) and then the mail processing script looks at the To: header in the transaction and compares that to the mysql database of users and then routes it to the appropriate mysql database for that users messages.

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In reply to Re^2: Email System Scalabilty by john.charles.aldrich
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