Re: [SM-USERS] Hosting squirrelmail on seperate box to mail server

[Jonathan A. <ja...@ce...>]

Hello Mark,
On Friday, December 20, 2002, Mark C wrote...

> Hi, 

> Currently I'm hosting squirrelmail on the same box as my imap/smtp
> server.

> To avoid any risk of the mail server being compromised, I would like
> to host squirrelmail on a completely separate box with all the other
> websites I'll be hosting.

> 1. Is this possible

  Yes, just run the conf.pl script in config/ and set the host for the
  IMAP server.

> 2. Doing this, would this increase my security to my mail server?

  It'd allow you to not run an additional service (httpd) on the
  server, but then you have the plain text authentication sent between
  the webservers and the IMAP server (that is not including between
  client and webserver). There is currently code in devel branch
  that'll allow you to use certain functions (from the mcrypt library)
  to do some encryption for authentication (MD5 type stuff).

-- 
Jonathan Angliss
(ja...@ce...)