Hello everyone,
We are in the process of converting our mail system from 22 Novell
servers to one IMail server. We have converted thirteen servers so far.
At the time that we converted the first server, the only way we could find
to allow incoming mail to the old server name was to enter that name as an
alias for the IMail server. And, only the fully qualified host name would
work. That is, we had to enter hostname.domainname.edu. When we converted
the thirteenth server this week, we reached the 255 character limit on the
alias field. We found a workaround by removing a server name that had never
been officially used for mail, but we will be in trouble next week if we
don't find a solution to this. We had originally thought that if we had a
CNAME record in the DNS for the Novell servers that this would be adequate.
We do have these CNAME records in the DNS and we are able to send mail
locally with no problem even to the server that is not listed as an alias.
However, sending from a account on hotmail.com fails with the message "550
not a local host, not a gateway" unless we have the fully qualified hostname
in the alias field. Does anyone know what to do about this? Thanks for
your help.
Martha Flugstad
winmail.dat
