[sork] Vacation delima

[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting Andrew Falgout <afalgout at ocean.otr.usm.edu>:

> There are two system in question:
> 
> A - Email and Web Services with Horde Install
> B - Email and Web Services w/o Horde Install
> 
> System A allows people to check mail through web mail on both system using
> the imap service.  I've recently been asked to implement a vacation
> package for webmail, but my problem is.  When people are logged into
> system A to check mail on system B.  They cannot set a vacation message
> because it is not running on system B.  If the answer is that they both
> need to be running horde, fine.  I was just wondering if anyone had though
> of this configuration yet.
> 
> Andrew

Enable ftp server on machine B and restrict it to only accept
connections from Machine A. Install ftp server on Machine A and
restrict it to the loopback address.  Install vacation module and vacation
program on Machine A. Install vacation program (but not module) on Machine B.
Configure Machine A's vacation module to use the ftp driver for both 
Machine A (via localhost) and Machine B (via network).  Voila.

Notes:

* Assumes no shell logins to machine A.
* Assumes plain text password sending between machines is not an issue.

-- 
Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin

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