hi all
well i have this problem
i have recently got a raq4
i have two types of clients

1)those who needs hosting and mailing both!
now the solution i provide to them
i have defined in proftpd.conf to give only the site-adm
the ftp rights and this works fine

2)those who needs mailing right now and might need hosting!
now the problem is that if i give them the same setup as above the
site-adm can upload his website in the mailing space i provide!
Editing proftpd.conf every now and then is not the solution i'm looking

for!

solution i thought for this:
i get two IP's from the host lets say 202.166.134.3 and 202.166.134.4
well for the first ip i can edit proftp.conf & Ftp.pm that site-adm

have the FTP rights
and for the 2nd IP i can deny the FTP rights for all

now comes the most confusing part:
well for the 1st type of customer i have i can put there site under the

1st IP ie 202.166.134.3(dummy ip)
for the 2nd type of customer i have i can put there site under the 2nd

IP ie 202.166.134.4 with a under construction page which i'll upload

myself,this will solve the problem of FTP rights

but if the 2nd type of client asks me to give hosting ,FTP rights then

i'll have to move his site under the 1st IP,which will effect his

mailing as the site would be down!

question i have
can i keep the MX records of the existing customer on the 2nd IP
and transfer his A records to the 1st IP.
will this work as a solution as i dont want a downtime in mailing of my

clients?
wat all changes would i have to make to do this?
all suggetions r welcome and if anybody needs anykind of feedback
well i'll be happy to provide it

Kapil

I'm not entirely sure about this whole post but I'd think this could be handled solely by DNS. Might have to be a bit creative, but it could be done.

You want to just offer email for a domain for one set of clients correct? This is the problem, yes?

A records for the domain (along with 'www') could be set to point to an IP which has a 'coming soon' page or you could CNAME the domain to point to another virt. site with just a 'coming soon' page.

MX records for the domain pointed to another place, possibly a virt. site named mail45678.domain.com or something ugly enough they wouldn't want to use it for a site. Eamil alias this with the domain name and you should be good to go.

I don't really have any other suggestions, other than to be creative with DNS, so if this doesn't help, then I'm all out of suggestions.