ARCHIVED: What are the differences between the old and new Shakespeare systems?

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In May 2000, UITS replaced the older Shakespeare systems computers (Falstaff, Hamlet, Juliet, Ophelia, and Othello) with newer servers (Ariel, Iago, Kate, and Lear). This document compares the old and new Shakespeare systems computers.

Like the old servers, the new systems are dedicated to email, and are available for use by students, faculty, and staff. The newer systems offer the same editors as the older ones (i.e., Pico, Emacs, and vi). Mail forwarding and the vacation utility are also available, but the commands are slightly different than on the older systems. For detailed instructions, see the Knowledge Base documents ARCHIVED: From the Shakespeare or Jewel systems, how do I forward my mail to a different email system? and ARCHIVED: On Unix systems, how do I use the email vacation program?

In other ways, Iago, Kate, Lear, and Ariel are very different from the older Shakespeare systems computers:

  • Iago, Kate, Lear, and Ariel are Sun Enterprise 450 servers running Solaris. Iago has three 300MHz CPUs and 2GB of memory, while the other three computers have four 400MHz CPUs and 4GB of memory. Hamlet, Falstaff, Juliet, Ophelia, and Othello were Hewlett-Packard K-class servers, running HP-UX.
  • The only mailer available is Pine, and you must use pineshell as your default shell. The older Shakespeare systems computers offered Berkeley mail and MH (although UITS recommended Pine). If you would prefer to use one of those email programs, they are available on Steel. See the Knowledge Base document Get additional IU computing accounts
  • Mail is not actually stored on Iago, Kate, Lear, and Ariel. Rather, Pine connects to an IMAP server (imap1.indiana.edu for Iago, imap2.indiana.edu for Kate, imap3.indiana.edu for Lear, and imap4.indiana.edu for Ariel) and reads your mail from there. In other words, mail is not local to these systems. Pine functions as a client to the servers imap1.indiana.edu, imap2.indiana.edu, imap3.indiana.edu, and imap4.indiana.edu. So when you have an account on one of the second-generation Shakespeare systems, you actually have two accounts: one on Iago, Kate, Lear, or Ariel, and the other on an IMAP server. On the older Shakespeare systems computers, mail was local, which was not as resource-efficient.
  • On the old Shakespeare systems, your password could be different from your network password. However, on the new Shakespeare systems, you must use your network password, and you cannot set a local password solely for your Shakespeare systems account.
  • The old Shakespeare systems allowed POP and IMAP connections, as did the new systems until June 30, 2002. Since then the new servers support only IMAP. Since mail is stored on the IMAP servers rather than the Shakespeare systems, you need to configure your IMAP client to point to the correct IMAP server, rather than to Iago, Kate, Lear, or Ariel. For more information on the POP retirement, and on configuring IMAP clients, see the Knowledge Base document Why UITS doesn't support POP mail
  • You get 6MB of disk space on Iago, Kate, Lear, and Ariel to store mail attachments and extracted messages. You also have at least 12MB of mail storage space on the IMAP server for your Inbox and other mail folders. For more information on quotas, see the Knowledge Base documents ARCHIVED: On the Shakespeare and Jewel systems, what are IMAP and local quotas? and ARCHIVED: On the Shakespeare and Jewel systems, how do I check my quota?
  • The new Shakespeare systems and their IMAP servers have a maintenance window between 6am and noon every Sunday. When it is possible, scheduled outages for any of these computers will take place during this time period.

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