>OK, I am still a little confused though.
it's ok, it comes with the job!!
>Is it an MX record that will redirect the web browser to a different site
>to login/signup for their webmail?
no, the MX record is used by SMTP servers wanting to dump mail on that domain.
"Imail Web msging" is over the http protocol (not SMTP protocol) and so the
browser will look in the DNS for mail.domain.com, ie the A record and then
go to the ip address for the mail.domain.com and check into port 80 for
http service (listened to by Imail web server).
so you need an MX record for domain.com and of course a A record for
mail.domain.com.
domain.com IN A ipaddress (of standard web server)
www.domain.com IN A ipaddress (also could use CNAME RR here)
domain.com IN MX 5 mail.domain.com
mail.domain.com IN A ipaddress (of the Imail machine)
So mail gets sent to mail.domain.com, and his web msging URL is
mail.domain.com, but his web site is www.domain.com.
Got it?
Len
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Len Conrad
>Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 11:43 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Can I reroute a DNS to a different URL
>
>
>
> >with help from Scott and his .DLL. The question is can I setup a DNS entry
> >that would route something like MAIL.BUYREMAN.COM to a server that I do
>host
> >here, like MAIL.APRATECH.ORG, without affecting the "call" to BUYREMAN.COM.
>
>sure, the whole idea of MX records is to enable to have the mail exchanger
>host to be different from the main host.
>
>In fact, with no MX records for a domain, a smtp server will try to send
>the mail to the A record address of the domain. "Best practice" today is
>to have MX records anyway, even when the A record and MX record point to
>same ip address.
>
>So in your case, www.domain.com and domain.com traffic will go to the A
>record ip address, while mail traffic will go to the MX record's host.
>
>Many of us do this already because run dedicated mail servers separate from
>the web servers.
>
>And so you can see why you need security on your DNS server, since if
>someone hacks and pollutes your DNS, they can point traffic, esp mail
>(clear text) traffic to a machine that shouldn't be getting it.
>
>Seeing how much time Ipswitch put into the DNS issue in the Imail docs,
>this topic is very much "on".
>
>Len
>
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