der Mouse <mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca> wrote:

>> The Sun shall act as a server, giving access to the internet for a
>> small home network.  It shall _not_ be up 24/7 but only when it's
>> needed.  The users of this home network don't know much about
>> computers, they can boot a windows pc and use it as a surf station,
>> but not more.  They can _not_ login via ssh to shut down the server -
>> which would also mean that if they forgot to shut down the server and
>> there was no other computer running, they would have to boot again
>> another computer, just to shut down the server.  In my eyes this is
>> no good solution.
> 
> This sounds to me like a perfect situation for burning a custom boot CD
> and running with everything there (and, perforce, read-only).

IMAP-Server on a read-only system? ;-) 

> Alternatively, you could just not bother shutting it down and simply
> turn it off.  Unless you do stuff like async mounts, FFS is fairly
> robust in the face of such things - and it sounds as though it won't be
> doing much writing anyway.

Cyrus IMAP-Server
Leafnode
Squid

These things do require much writing activiy, I guess...

Michael