>In preparation for this Imail move, I have been looking through IMAIL's >recommended setup for primary/local host, and comparing it to the >present setup which was done before my time here. > >The machine name of the new server Mercury.todhunter.com
hmm >The old machine that IMAIL is currently running on, is called >Laserver.todhunter.com hmmm >When I click on the local host tab, in IMAIL, the local host is showing >up as todhunter.com. that's the default mailhost name, don't touch it. > I thought that had to be the actual machine name of >the box Imail runs on? Imail hostnames, in the DNS namespace, have nothing to the the MS networking machine name in the NetBIOS namespace. >Browsing through our current setup, there is nowhere in IMAIL itself >that actually uses the real machine name as the host name. doesn't matter. >I am trying to duplicate this current setup as closely as possible >because I am not a DNS guru and would just like to change IP addresses >in our DNS rather then create new records. sure, no need to change the DNS hostname, just change the A record of the MX hostname, to have the incoming mail arrive at the new box's ip. >I have already created an A record for mercury pointing to its public IP >address. (207.190.36.135) ok, but no need to invent a new name for the new box old: laserver.todhunter.com. A 207.190.36.130 new: laserver.todhunter.com. A 207.190.36.135 then MX records don't change at all: todhunter.com. MX 10 laserver.todhunter.com. magik, huh? >Our users have mail.todhunter.com as their mail server in their email >client. old: mail.todhunter.com A 207.190.36.130 new: mail.todhunter.com A 207.190.36.135 >I already have an A record set up for mail, pointing to the >current IP address of the mail server (207.190.36.130). I want to keep >this server setting in the user's mail clients. sure, no need to hassle them with your switchover. >There is no hosts file in the drivers\etc folder either. Imail uses that file only to decide which @recipientdomain to relay for, not to resolve local mail domains. Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
