>We have found, for our clients who do not want to use the "mail" as part of
>their address, theres a lot less confusion to the client and a lot less
>admin on our side to set up as per your 2nd example.
>
>(This of course assumes that you even have a "mail." record in your DNS.)
The @mail.domain.com situation can also mess up mailing list subscriptions,
too. On this point, the Imail u/g is giving bad advice.
The was the consensus long ago in this list, but for newbies it bears
repeating:
In Imail:
mail hostname : domain.com
mail hostname alias: mail.domain.com (and/or smtp and/or pop3 and/or imap4
and/or webmail)
DNS forward zone:
domain.com MX 10 mail.domain.com
mail.domain.com MX 10 mail.domain.com
smtp.domain.com MX 10 mail.domain.com
domain.com A ip.ad.re.ss
mail.domain.com A ip.ad.re.ss
smtp.domain.com A ip.ad.re.ss
pop.domain.com A ip.ad.re.ss
imap.domain.com A ip.ad.re.ss
webmail.domain.com A ip.ad.re.ss
ALL, repeat ALL, mail hostnames and their alieas defined in Imail must have
both MX and A records to be acceptable to the widest range of most
restrictive mail servers doing anti-spam checking and DNS validations.
Then, for your clients in their mail programs:
outgoing mail SMTP server: mail.domain.com or smtp.domain.com
incoming mail POP3 server: pop.domain.com
incoming mail IMAP4 server: imap.domain.com
Webmail url: webmail.domain.com
The advantage of having separate hostnames for (mail and smtp) vs (pop and
imap) and webmail is that when your traffic gets heavy, you can have
separate machines / ip's for smtp and pop/imap and web messaging traffic,
with your clients making no change in their mail programs.
And we hope, as we've requested, that Imail 7 supports the option of Web
Messaging http server on a different machine from the SMTP / POP server
(wouldn't that solve a bunch of headaches and provide super scalability!!).
Len
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