Hi Jens,

jensebaer wrote:

Hi Zopers,

i have a general problem. May someone can help me.

the users of my site should be able to lay down their content on the site (creating their own websites / like tripod) and they should have the possibility to get an email acount. user@myserver.com Every user should have the possibility to use pop3 to get his mail from the server.

At the moment I am using Zope (with Medusa) and Apache.

I want to use Zope but i dont know if there is a limit of users on the site (performance). I think 5 000 users are to many???????

I thought about using mySQL to handel the useracounts (I think there is already aproduct for this), but whats about the content of the users. Should the content be stored into the zope database or can I store the content at the linux filesystem?

There are several ways to get Zope-users synchron to system users. May be etcUserFolder is what you want.

I thought about saving the data under /home/siteuser//content for example (by using a python funktion???) but then I have to use the useradd linux command and I am not quit sure if this work. Security? Is there a way to add user in linux? I think that can be a solution for the pop3 email problem.

Don't mix up web content and pop3. Zope is fine for web, but not designed for e-mail and pop3. You may want to use cyrus imapd, which also handles pop3. But most linux-distributions (you sound to using some sort of linux?) include at least one smtpd and pop3d.

I hope I was able to explain my problem.

I do not know much about Linux and Python but I have to find a solution. Any suggestions about this?

All of us were beginners some day. But I would encourrage you to lern more about your system you are using before acting as a service-provider. Ok, its good to jump in moderate cold water. Buts if its to cold, your heart can stop .-) As to speak in pictures :-) Best wishes, Tino Wildenhain