[lug] Awkward server situation

[John Hernandez]

Justin, it's not that wierd, really.  People do it all the time.  If a subset of your users have shell accounts on shellbox, that's fine.  When you set up the pine software (or other MUA) on shellbox, the trick is to edit the global configuration file (ie. /etc/pine.conf) to set your IMAP (or POP3) inbox-path to "{mainbox.jackmoves.com}inbox" and you should be all set.  I'm assuming, of course, that mainbox runs imapd and/or popd.

-John

Justin wrote:
> 
> I kind of have a wierd situation here. I'll start by explaining my
> current server setup. I have a single server that does all the work
> for my domain (besides DNS). It performs the following funtions:
> webserving, email service, database, ftp service, and also shell
> services for IRC related things. What I want to do is split off the
> shell services part of the machine to a different box. So
> mainbox.jackmoves.com will support all the important stuff like web,
> email, db, and ftp. The other shellbox.jackmoves.com will be there for
> all IRC and shell related services. I plan on splitting up my user
> base since most ppl that use the web/email services don't use (or know
> how to) use a linux shell. The shell users will have user accounts on
> the mainbox.jackmoves.com server as well as shellbox.jackmoves.com. My
> main concern is, since my mail server runs on mainbox.jackmoves.com,
> will users on shellbox.jackmoves.com be able to send/retrieve
> @jackmoves email from the shellbox with say Pine, mutt, or elm? My
> main reasoning for this setup is so all the data on the mainbox
> (web/email/db) is safe from a potential hack of the shellbox since it
> is exposed to IRC and the like. I'm still confusing myself trying to
> figure this all out so sorry if I am making no sense. Those of you
> that do understand what I'm trying to do, I'd appreciate any
> suggestions or input. Thanks in advance...
> 
> Justin
> 
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