Hmmmmm...... I have never had any entries in the host file except when I was
forwarding mail to another server (another domain forwarding to Exchange). I
have never had any problems either...
Why wouldn't the entries below point to 127.0.0.1 unless they were
forwarding to another domain?
Bryan Andrews
Senior Web Administrator
Cox Communications, Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 9:14 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Reply to?
>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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