Hello Tim
On 23-Feb-01, you wrote:
> On some mail clients, but not YAM, if you just stick "mail" into the
> server configuration, they automatically try appending the ISP domain name
> to the server name (i.e. mail.domain.com). Perhaps if you try replacing
> "mail," with what the complete mail server name might be, that might help?
>
> Though it is possible that they've called their mail server just "mail"
ISPs usually do this as a CNAME record for the convenience of the users.
Hosts are rarely given the real names of "mail", "www" or whatever.
> Personally, I wish that mail programs could accept variables in their
> server configurations, then I could set Miami up to set a variable in a
> dial script, perhaps; so that when I called my different ISPs, the SMTP
> server would always be the one for the ISP I actually dialled up, without
> having to re-configure YAM.
>
Mail programs do accept variables in a sense. If you declare host "mail",
or whatever, as your smtp/pop server then the actual host will resolve to
whatever the /current/ default domain is.
So long as you had your "Get dynamic host name, priority" is set to 1 or
higher on each interface, then your host name will be assigned
automatically by the ISP - and with a bit of luck, the domain name you're
given will be the same as the domain the mail host is part of.
However, as I said in a previous mail, Miami doesn't take the default
domain from the machines current host name - which is a serious flaw IMO.
Steve
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