At 14:48 2001-05-15 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi folks,
>
>Here is a bit of an unusual situation. I work at an educational institute,
>and we have our main mail servers on VMS. The staff have computers with
>POP3, and just POP3 their email from these servers. The students don't have
>computers (most of them), so we forward their mail to IMail, and they use
>the web interface.
>
>Last year when I set this up, I made the host name webmail.pbi.ab.ca. As I
>added users, their return address, by default, came to be
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>For various reasons, we would like the return address in IMail to be
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>We are using the IMail database (i.e. in the registry). NT4, SP6A, IMail
>6.04 (yes, I should upgrade to the latest, but I'll wait until the students
>are all gone. It's working now :)
>
>I guess my options are:
>
>1. Dump the registry (the IMail key and below), change the
>@webmail.pbi.ab.ca to @pbi.ab.ca, and reload the registry (faster this way
>than manually changing each registry key, or by changing it using the IMail
>administrator program). This won't solve the problem for new users who will
>be added in September (when they come to school).
>
>2. Change the name of my server. I assume that following Knowledge Base
>article IM-19991007-DM01 ("How to change the Official Hostname of an
>existing domain") is the way to do that. To get my goal, I would need to
>change it to "pbi.ab.ca", but I assume that would cause problems with the
>main servers.
>
>3. Something I haven't thought of.
Imail doesn�t care what you call its mail domains and aliass, nor whether
you have another mailbox server with the same name, or even what the DNS
contains.
Change the name of the Imail host to the one you want, as specified in the KB.
mail flow will be as it is today.
maybe... :)))
Len
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Mark
>========================================
>Mark Reimer, MCSE, A+
>NT Systems and Networking
>Information Services, Prairie Bible Institute
>Box 4000, 330 6th Ave N.
>Three Hills, AB T0M-2N0
>Canada
>Phone: 403-443-5511 Ext: 3476
>Fax: 403-443-5540
>E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>www.pbi.ab.ca
>
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