I would have put OT, but this seems to have been the topic... I swear I saw my ISP guy put a reverse lookup entry in his DNS server. However, when I went to DNS stuff and put in hostmail.varsitycontractors.com, selected ALL, it didn't show a PTR entry.
Why would this happen? (Does ALL mean... All?) Jason Alba IT Manager tel: 208.232.8599 x323 fax: 208.232.6068 http://www.varsitycontractors.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ron Hornbaker Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 4:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Creating a separate web for Web Messaging > IMail 7.5 on Win2K Server with IIS5. We use port 80 for our webs. We > would like to be able to set up a separate domain to run the web > messaging. Am curious if the following scenario would work. > > The host name for IMAIL is machinename.ourdomain.com > The IP Address is xxx.xxx.xx.x > The Port for Web Messaging has been changed from 8383 to xx. > > Could I Create a new web with a different IP address > such as xxx.xxx.xx.xxx No need to change the IP address, since IIS can do host header filtering. But you can set it up on a different IP if you want. IMail listens to all IPs on the machine, so it doesn't care. IIS can be set up to be selective, as you likely know already. > Name the web "webmail" The name is irrelevant. The host header is not irrelevant, if you're sharing IPs. The easiest way is to create a new website in IIS, with a host header filter of "webmail.yourdomain.com", and make sure you've got an A record for that host in your DNS (or use a wildcard DNS record so you can add any such tertiary hostname in the future.) > point it to the directory Imail\web and make the default page > "login.html" Ack! No. IIS doesn't serve the IMail web templates, IMail does. Instead of pointing the IIS website to a folder, point it to a URL, and make the url something like "http://webmail.yourdomain.com:xx/";. That way, users won't ever have to enter the non-standard port... it will just automagically appear in their browser address field. > Set up a dns reverse lookup pointer to webmail.ourdomain.com There is no need for PTR records on webservers. PTRs are important for mailservers only. > And, connect in the browser using http://webmail:xx (xx being the port > number)? Done like described, a user connects with "http://webmail.yourdomain.com/"; (the standard port 80, assuming IIS is listening on that port). > Would there be any conflicts with the machine IP address, or would it > work okay? That would work okay. Ron Hornbaker - http://humankindsystems.com - 2,539 admins can't be wrong - http://AnswerTrack.com - eCRM email tracking & routing - http://KillerWebMail.com - the name says it all - Buy IMail from us, get KillerWebMail FREE! - 1-888-952-4888 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/ 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/
