Agreed that knowing exactly when MX checks occur would certainly help resellers. I'll look into what it would take to post this information. I'm not going to promise anything will happen soon though - when doing a migration, please coordinate with sales if you feel it's necessary.

In terms of configuring aliases and catch-all, the catch-all is configurable through the API currently (btw, this document is being overhauled currently). However, this option is not available through the RWI - I'll look into adding this though. As for aliases, they are currently only configurable through the mailadmin.webmailogin.com interface as you mention. However, we are currently documenting the full API for the mailadmin interface and we will be releasing it in the coming months.

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 11:22:29 -0600 David Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Knowing precisely how the MX checks are scheduled should help a lot with
email migrations (assuming that's really how they work :->).

The biggest hassle for us when migrating customers is not being able to
configure the aliases and catch-all rules before the MX records have been
changed.  We have to wait for the MX change to be noticed and then sit there
entering aliases as fast as we can type.  These are both things that are
controlled via the mailadmin interface.  Of course, there could be rules and
things that are only accessible via the mailbox settings, but it would help
us immensely if we could access the new boxes via the mailadmin interface
before they were "live."  (I realize this may not be easy since it depends a
lot on how the database tables are currently organized.)

-dpm

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Dorland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 10:14 AM
To: Todd Jagger
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: saturday email product question


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The policy itself is certainly not ideal and there are options we're looking
at currently.  One option that we're working on right now is that all mail
would be treated as non-local mail.  This would eliminate most of the issues
that I noted.  I'd be interested in any other thoughts you or anyone has
too.


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