IMPORTANT Naming the OHN domain.com is a legacy thing to have your web messaging users have the reply-to field of domain.com rather than <machine>.domain.com. Although never recommended by us it _used_ to be fine. Now however with the growth of the product, continuing to do this WILL break other things (ie internally generated links to Web calendaring, SSL, etc). Go with what the manual says. It is correct.
Eric S ----- Original Message ----- From: "Guy Isabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2002 2:20 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Primary Host Name > David, > > > I take it from your answer that there is nothing wrong > > with me creating the IMail primary host using a name which is not related > to > > the tcp/ip hostname of the machine. Is that right? > > I'm not Len (by a long shot) but, no, there is nothing wrong at all with > naming your primary host differently from the NetBIOS machine name. As long > as DNS knows about your host, you'll be fine. Also, you may/will eventually > add virtual (IP-less) hosts to your mail server and they will be bound to be > different from the primary host name. Again, no problem. > > > Len Conrad wrote: > > > hint: call all your Imail hostnames "domain.com", > > > and NOT "mail.domain.com". > > > > Why do you advise this? The users guide suggests imail.domain.com and > using > > an alias of domain.com. Seems like common practice to use mail.domain.com > > for the mail server. Why do you advise not to use mail.domain.com? > > The general consensus on this list is that the user guide has it backwards > (though it is not "wrong"). Common practice is rather to name the server > "domain.com" and not "mail.domain.com". So, set the OHN to "domain.com" and > add a Host Alias of "mail.domain.com" if you *really* want your users to > have e-mail addresses of the form [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is not a > common form these days. (An analogy is that many Web sites do not have "www" > prepended to their URLs as was the norm a few years ago.) > > HTH, > > Guy > > > > > 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 the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > 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 the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
