Great idea!
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From: imail [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 12:36 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] How do you create an alias for the mail host?
Len,
...
Side-note: This list has lots of great suggestions that I have used.
Has anyone thought of creating an archive or FAQ-type database with
a summary of the good, but not obvious ideas?
It would be sort of an IMail/NT "best practices" database resource....
R Spivack
SPIV Technologies Group
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---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Len Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 11:33:54 +0200
>
>>1. The vhost --- mydomain.com
>>2. The account --- <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>3. Mail host alias ---- mail.mydomain.com
>
>To simplify life for your clients, you could do this:
>
>mydomain.com MX 10 Imail.ISPdomain.com
>smtp.mydomain.com MX 10 Imail.ISPdomain.com
>pop3.mydomain .com A ip.ad.re.ss ;
>of Imail.ISPdomain.com
>
>So when they are trying to setup their mail programs, for their "SMTP
>outgoing mail server", they enter: smtp.mydomain.com
>
>and for their "POP3 incoming mail server", they enter: pop3.mydomain .com
>
>The fact that pop3.mydomain .com and smtp.mydomain.com actually resolve to
>the same ip address (of the Imail box) doesn't matter, giving the users two
>hostnames for two different fields in their mail program might help them
>(or maybe not, sometimes you just don't know).
>
>Of course, if you offer IMAP4, then create a host of
>
>imap4.mydomain.com A ip.ad.re.ss ;
>of Imail.ISPdomain.com
>
>However, you might have advantages by using two different hostnames for
>SMTP and POP3 / IMAP4 services, since later you could have one machine
>handling all outgoing SMTP traffic (a relay-only mail hub) but holding no
>POP3 mailboxes, and keep Imail as the POP3 server.
>
>When you make such a break out, your users don't have to change anything in
>their mail clients, all you do is change the A record for those
>smtp.mydomain.com to the ip of your outgoing mail hub. The users keep
>sending mail to smtp.mydomain.com which is now your mail hub, and keep
>reading their mail at pop3.mydomain.com which is your Imail box.
>
>Len
>
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