Hello Daniel,
Thanks for your response. I think I understand. However am still a bit
confused. The domain I was refererring to was a virtual domain(s)
with/without IP address, not the Primay Mail Host.
Pg 31 of 6.0 manual says setup Official Host Name as mail.domain.*** and set
the alias to domain.***. However in the picture of their example they have
different made-up 3rd level name "jupiter7.space.com". I am assuming that
they mean that "jupiter7" is the name of their mail server for that domain =
to "mail." in their text and my application.
The item confusing me however is from the following message a while back
>>Each time I setup a new domain I set it up with a hostname of
>>mail.domain.com, then I give it an alias of just domain.com.
>
>reverse that
>
>> Then I setup all the users, etc. An I setting up everything right?
>
>no
>
>> If there is a way to set it up so that instead of making the hostname
>> mail.domain.com and then using an alias, can I just bypass that step?
>
>mail host is domain.com and mail host alias mail.domain.com
>
>Len
The info from this message appears to contradict the manual and the way I am
settup up my domains. Right? If so, is there some advantage I am missing
by doing this?
Thanks
David
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Donnelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Official Host Name
> David,
>
> I've said it dozens of times here in the forum, in many threads. Here is
the
> short answer:
>
> To use anything other than the true hostname for the domain running on the
> Primary IP address, one must add an entry in the HOSTS file. See manual
> (V6), pg 26, Checking Configuration of the Primary Mail Host.
>
> For any other IPs and domains, you do not need anything special, as far as
> IMail is concerned.
>
> Why? Basically it has to do with 'name resolution' within IMail and the
> local machine. And it is likely that 'domain.com' has a different A record
> than 'mail.domain.com' and getting that from DNS would cause IMail to try
to
> deliver to the 'wrong' host.
>
> Daniel Donnelly
> ________________________________________________________
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Setzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 2:31 PM
> Subject: [IMail Forum] Official Host Name
>
>
> > I'm hoping someone can help me with a bit of advice. In setting up a
> domain
> > I've always used the Imail recommendation (I don't know why just always
> done
> > it this way) of the Officical host name = mail.domainname.com (.net,
etc.)
> > and the Alias=domainname.com. However, I remember a vauge reference
some
> > months back in this list about doing this the opposite way. I am using
> > mostly Registry for these domains (a few SQL) and all have unique IPs.
> >
> >
> > I can't seem to find much "why" about this in the KB or Manual. Any
input
> > greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > David
> >
> >
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