as a wise man once said bleh
earthlink = bleh that's what I get out of this. Time to install a web based mail, or just let them enjoy mail forwarding, what a shame. But of course, I can't install the 4.0 update so maybe neomail will cause error too lol In short, raq 3 + earthlink = headaches :) Joel ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 2:13 PM Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] SMTP Email > > > > Thank you for confirmation. That blows. I guess any web hosting client must > > > use web based email I will have to install, what a shame > > > >Not true, Joel. > > > >They can get their mail from your server by setting up a "pop" account > >for receiving email in their email program. It should point to your > >machine, their domain name. > > > >We set up in DNS for our clients an A record for pop.theirdomain.com and > >tell them to set up their email client to GET mail as "username" from > >"pop.theirdomain.com". > > > >And we tell them to send mail by setting up their email client to > >whatever earthlink uses for outgoing email (if I remember correctly it's > >smtp.earthlink.net). > > > >They can then use [EMAIL PROTECTED] as their return address. > >Works for me. > > I ran into a problem trying this setup in Eudora - the question may be, > does Earthlink require pop-before-relay. If so, you're sunk as you will > need 2 personalities. Then all mail that comes into yourdomain.com that you > reply to, you will have to change the personality on the out-going reply to > your ELN smtp entry. I cannot remember the exact details, but I know we > found it to be a royal pain and have dropped many of our earthlink accounts > due to this. > > If you can setup pop server as yourdomain.com and smtp as > mail.earthlink.net - and ELN does not require the pop-before-relay, then it > should be pretty easy to do. The only other thing is that users will see > your header info as earthlink.net - this will bother some people and not > others. > > Yes, it can be done, it is just a question of how much you want to teach > your end-users. > > Danny > > _______________________________________________ > cobalt-developers mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers > _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
