Thanks Anthony. I really appreciate you taking the time to answer my
questions and point me in the right direction.
Ryan
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Sent: Monday, December 27, 1999 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Beginner's Question on Virtual Hosts
> > I have quite a few existing clients that I'm moving from an outsourced
> mail
> > host to our own mail server running IMail 5. Our current outsourced
mail
> > servers allow users to enter just the domain name (ie. microsoft.com) as
> the
> > pop server. I can't seem to figure out how to allow this to happen on
the
> > IMail server.
> >
>
> Actually this is very easy Ryan. In the Imail Server (in your Control
> panel) select the Gloabl tab, then the Virtual Host Admin button at the
> bottom. You add/delet all your virtual hosts right there and have the
> choice of identifying any given virtual mail host with two names. I
alwasy
> select mail.domain.com as the official mail host name, but also always
> select domain.com as the alias for eash mail host. I'm going to suggest
> that you download the IMail 5.0 user guide if you don't already have it.
> Check out pages 5, 28, 29, 31, 82, and 89 for detailed information about
> virtual mail hosting.
>
> > I have a box as our web server and dns and a second box as our mail
> server.
> > I'm using virtual hosts in IMail along with virtual servers (in IIS4.0
to
> > host the domains), so I only have one IP address assigned to each
machine.
> > I'd really like to figure this problem out so that I can have a seamless
> > transition for my clients.
>
> No problem what-so-ever. In fact I venture this is exactly what most of
us
> do in any event. Just point ALL your A records to the IP of your mail
> server and point all your MX records to either mail.domain.com.
>
> >From this point you will be able to either mail to domain.com OR
> mail.domain.com.
>
> Hope this helps
> Anthony
>
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