> > Thank you for confirmation. That blows. I guess any web hosting client must > > use web based email I will have to install, what a shame > >Not true, Joel. > >They can get their mail from your server by setting up a "pop" account >for receiving email in their email program. It should point to your >machine, their domain name. > >We set up in DNS for our clients an A record for pop.theirdomain.com and >tell them to set up their email client to GET mail as "username" from >"pop.theirdomain.com". > >And we tell them to send mail by setting up their email client to >whatever earthlink uses for outgoing email (if I remember correctly it's >smtp.earthlink.net). > >They can then use [EMAIL PROTECTED] as their return address. >Works for me.
I ran into a problem trying this setup in Eudora - the question may be, does Earthlink require pop-before-relay. If so, you're sunk as you will need 2 personalities. Then all mail that comes into yourdomain.com that you reply to, you will have to change the personality on the out-going reply to your ELN smtp entry. I cannot remember the exact details, but I know we found it to be a royal pain and have dropped many of our earthlink accounts due to this. If you can setup pop server as yourdomain.com and smtp as mail.earthlink.net - and ELN does not require the pop-before-relay, then it should be pretty easy to do. The only other thing is that users will see your header info as earthlink.net - this will bother some people and not others. Yes, it can be done, it is just a question of how much you want to teach your end-users. Danny _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
