> Now, within Imail, you need to create a hostname of wwmp.net as your
> default  hostname, and required hostname alias of mail.wwmp.net. (or
> is  it the other way round. What fsking mess)

It's  the  other  way  around,  if  you're  both  (a)  using IMail web
services,  and either (b) have an A record for example.com pointing to
a  server  other  than  IMail  or  (c)  do  not  have  an A record for
example.com  at  all. And there has *never* been a requirement for the
word 'mail.' It can be any host name.

If you are not using WM/WC, you do not need to worry about it.

> This  mail.wwmp.net has nothing to to with DNS, should never be used
> in  mail  addresses.

Ah!  But  it  *does*  have to do with DNS--really, it *only* has to do
with DNS. The IMail web services are hard-coded to assume that the OHN
will  have an A record pointing to the box. I think this is completely
rational,  but  it's  not documented at all (except here, constantly),
and  it  means  that  the  OHN  has  to  serve dual purposes, which is
misleading.

It's  still  not  as  bad  as  you think. Not good, for sure, and I've
suggested  many  times that this web-specific data come from a setting
other than the OHN, one more subsidiary to the mail function; in kind,
the default Reply-To: domain should come from a different setting. But
it's  actually  intuitive  when  you  look  at  IMail as an integrated
platform serving up web pages from a host that cannot just have an MX.

> You're already screwed up on this point since we see in your msgs that
> you're posting as
> 
> "Craig Skaggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> rather than
> 
> "Craig Skaggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

This  means  that  Craig  already  has  his  OHN  set  up *correctly*,
actually.  What he needs to better manage, and it is annoying but part
of the game for now, is the Reply-To: (MAILADDR) field for himself and
his users.

Most important, though: he needs to manage his open relay!

-Sandy


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