One last try for this:
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrews, Bryan (COX-Atlanta)
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 10:25 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Reply to?
I'm sorry to carry this thread on so long but...
To clarify:
* Yes I want all my users email to be [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> as opposed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> .
* Almost all users are using webmail (but not all).
* I am currently not having any problems or issues and I have no host
entries.
* My server is not named 'mail' but dns does point mail.mydomain.com
to it's IP.
* My primary domain is mail.mydomain.com currently.
* I am using ODBC and SQL7
* The only time I have ever used host entries is to forward mail for
another domain to another mail server
Does everyone have entries in their host file? Is this necessary only when
your primary domain doesn't match you machine name? Because mine never has
and I've not had a problem... yet.
If I were to set up Imail fresh... there would be no entries in the host
file other than 127.0.0.1 localhost.
I could set Imail's primary host (at install) as mydomain.com (as opposed to
mail.mydomain.com) and it would work fine? Or would I need the host entry
pointing to itself?
So assuming that the ip below is actually the localhost (127.0.0.1 =
156.21.50.5) ... I should have these entries:
127.0.0.1 localhost
156.21.50.5 machinename.mydomain.com
156.21.50.5 mail.mydomain.com (as this is what dns points to but my
machine name is not 'mail')
156.21.50.5 mydomain.com
Thanks for the help on this....
-----Original Message-----
From: Quentin Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
<mailto:[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 10:01 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Reply to?
Page 26 refers to a workaround for users installing Imail
and want to use a
different host name instead of the the real host name for your primary host.
127.0.0.1 local host
156.21.50.5 computers host name (primary mail host normally
installed)
156.21.50.5(again) mail host you want to use instead of the
default primary
mail host
something like an alias for
the primary host
but "not" because
you're kind or renaming the
primary host
----- Original Message -----
From: Andrews, Bryan (COX-Atlanta) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 9:41 AM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Reply to?
> 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]]
<mailto:[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 9:14 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[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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