> Has anyone successfully set up W2K Active DNS with IMail? If so how?
( btw, a fellow in one of the lists I follow who is a unrelenting MS
fudmeister/pompomboy (outlook on life: "MS and W2K will take over the world
and this is wonderful") has stopped using W2K DNS because of RFC
incompatibilities. When I asked for details, he typically FUDded, would not
give the incompatibility details, and told me to go read the RFC's. In
fact, he admitted that W2K's DNS pb's have him, of all people, now runnning
BIND8 on Linux. If anybody has details about W2K DNS incompatibilities,
I'd like to hear them. In my limited, vicarous experiences with W2K DNS,
it's been ok, and interoperates with BIND8/NT ok, afaics. Trying to avoid
surprises. )
>I had actually tried to add a host record for the virtual domain earlier,
>but when I got the error message I did not create the host record.
add a host record to what, in what pgm? what was the error msg?
>I assume you mean Active Directory for "AD". I am running Active Directory
>although I don't see why Imail would care one way or another,
yes, let's hope that AD is not required on a W2K machine to run Imail.
Gratuitous complexity we don't need. Others here say it' not.
>since it is just a DNS host record scheme either way.I tried creating some
>virtual domain host
>records with the standard DNS format but that didn't help.
>
>TYIA for any suggestions.
DNS setup is extremely simple, once you know what to do (and knowing why
helps a lot) for MX in the anydomain.com zone file:
anyvirtualdom.com MX 10 ImailBox.ISPdomain.com
mail.anyvirtualdom.com MX 10 ImailBox.ISPdomain.com
anyvirtualdom.com A ip
mail.anyvirtualdom.com A ip
( Yes, you MUST give A and MX records to all Imail virtual domains. see:
http://bind8nt.meiway.com/itsaDNSmess.cfm )
Then of course in the ISPDomain.com zone file:
ISPdomain.com MX 10 ImailBox.ISPdomain.com
mail.ISPdomain.com MX 10 ImailBox.ISPdomain.com
ISPdomain.com A ip
mail.ISPdomain.com A ip
ImailBox.ISPdomain.com A ip.ad.re.ss
Then in Imail, the virtual mail hostname is anyvirtualdom.com, and its
alias hostname is mail.anyvirtualdom.com.
The above setup, repeated for all Imail virtuals, will get all mail for all
domains delivered to ip.ad.re.ss, at which point, Imail will sort out what
to do with it. For incoming mail, Imail doesn't know or care how you set
up DNS. Imail's SMTPD server just sits there on ip.ad.re.ss:25 waiting for
connections from SMTP clients.
All DNS MX machinations have to result, exclusively and ultimately, in the
remote, sending mail servers being told, by DNS, to what single ip.ad.re.ss
to deliver mail for a "given domain" as found in:
RCPT TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That's it, you're finished with DNS setup, and sending mail servers will
know to which ip to send the mail.
If you do the above setup and still can't receive mail, it's not a DNS
setup pb (assuming your DNS is not buggy or otherwise compromised).
Len
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