>I'm a little confused by page 26 from the 6.0 manual. It refers to the host
>file as such:
>
>127.0.0.1 localhost 'this is normal
>156.21.50.5 mail.domain.com 'this is forwarding mail coming to
>mail.domain.com to another server
>
>'add the following line
>
>156.21.50.5 'this is forwarding mail coming to domain.com to the same
>server
that's so Imail receives mail for
domain.com
mail.domain.com
>What if I am not using a server as a relay and mail is coming directly to
>the IMAIL server?
then the above is correct.
The confusing part of "hosts" file is that is also where you put the
ip.ad.re.ss and domain names for the Imail-relayed domains.
But relayed domains DO NOT exist within Imail either as default or virtual
mail domains. Relayed mail isn't "delivered" to Imail, in technical terms,
in only passes through.
>Also is it generally recommended that you use a smtp relay to relieve the
>main server of those duties?
No, that is suggested when you have an extremely busy Imail server, like
the fellow that reported in here with one Imail machine with 250,000 mail
accounts and 25 gb of traffic per day. He was dumping all outgoing mail on
a Sun machine for delivery to Internet, but even there he said he VERY
POWERFUL Imail machine was not very busy.
Len
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