Some of our users are telling me that on the new server when they login
using http://www.domainname.com:8383 their username/password fails ("Login
Failure! Please re-enter your USERID and PASSWORD or contact the mail
administrator."

Our DNS entries contain the following.  WWW set as IP address seemed to be
logical as this saves a step in resolving to the ip address and is the
default setup used by our ISP.

domainname.com. A       ip address
domainname.com. MX      10  mail.domainname.com  (same thing happens without the
"mail" prefix.
mail                    A       ip address
www                     A       ip address

I noticed that on our old server the entry was:

www                     CNAME  domainname.com

I had them change the new DNS server to use the CNAME entry - Lo and
Behold, we could log in using www.domainname.com:8383

I think I have always used http://domainname.com:8383 whenever I have used
the Web messaging and  most of our users only use the web messaging when
away from their normal email clients.

Now, my question is why is this?

Why the different effect in imail?  Is this an "undocumented" (or maybe
documented) feature of imail?  Is there something amiss here as it does not
seem logical to me that it should act differently but it clearly does.  The
user is connected to iMail but clearly not to the right account.  I suppose
I could jam something into the login screen to see where it thinks it is
logging, but before I do that can anyone explain what is going on here?




Orin R. Wells
AWASCO, Inc.
P. O. Box 5427
Kent, WA  98064-5427
(253) 630-5296
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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