At 07:27 AM -0400 10/07/2005, Brian McEwen wrote:
On Oct 6, 2005, at 11:14 PM, David Cheng wrote:
For example, I had the same problem setting up my first wireless
router. The normal setting for Shaw(in Canada)is: shawmail for both
sending and receiving mail, as per my ISP's set up instruction.
However, I could not receive any email until I change it to
shawmail.vc.shawcable.net, which is the server plus the domain name.
Wow. I would never, ever instruct a user to put in just "shawmail"
in any circumstances. I cannot believe that is the ISPs install
instruction!
I don't agree with using a name like "shawmail", but there are some
definate advantages to it.
Taking advantage of the way Resolver works is the way the 'net is
supposed to be done! That's the whole point of having search domains!
eg1: You want customers on certain subnets to use certain server
clusters. You tell them all to use "mail". Resolver prepends that
to the DHCP-provided subdomain name, and you can handle repointing in
DNS. Very easy.
eg2: You use Comcast at home and Earthlink or Verizon on the road
with your laptop. You always fetch your email from the same place,
but because of various blocks you need to dynamically change which
smtp server you're using, based on which ISP you're connected. So
you tell your email client to use "mail", and Resolver automagically
ends up pointing you to the right smtp server every time!
FWIW,
- Dan.
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