I reached that "255" limit with my domain aliases too. The solution was to
created a virtial domain with no IP and user mailboxes in the same directory
as real domain mailboxes. We then aliased this virtual domain as we added
more compaines to our system. This rule "255" works for virtual domains as
well so now we have "510" rule. As soon as we reach 255 limit on aliases
again, we'll create another virtual domain.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martha Flugstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 12:01 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] Limit on the Alias field
> 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
>
>
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