seperating servers

[capitano]

How can you seperate shell account servers from mail servers to different machines?

Take this hypothetical situation:
If a user is working in their shell account on machine X, for example, and then types "pine" and tries sending mail, how does a mail server on, say, machine Y, recognize it's supposed to kick in and actually handle the sendmail?

Thanks for any help!

Bryan

 

[marsd]

You need to configure PINE to use that mail server. That is all. Pine is option rich...(putting it mildly). In pine configuration specify the mail gateway you want to handle the users mail, just like any other mail agent.

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

Just to give a bit more detail on marsd's answer above... The main config file for a box is /etc/pine.conf but each user would have a file $HOME/.pinerc for personal customisation. You'd just change the 'smtp-server=' line to 'smtp-server=172.16.16.10' or whatever, either globally or by user with the .pinerc file. The default would always be to use sendmail on localhost. You can do it thru the GUI (changes .pinerc file) with 'S' for setup, 'C' for config, down arrow to smtp-server (highlight), 'C' again to change value, return to accept, 'E' to exit set-up, 'Y' to activate changes.

Rgds