At 04:56 PM 3/6/00 -0600, Bruce Keene wrote:
>Hi I'm a web host and I have a new client that has his own mail server. I'm
>hosting his web site but his mail needs to go to him. How do I do this in
>dns and do I have to set up a imail account to do this????
The procedure for doing this will be different depending on a few things.
Is the client on a dedicated or dial-up connection? Is the client on a
static or dynamic IP address?
The most common/easiest way seems to be dial-up with a static assigned
IP. You won't actually set up the domain, or any accounts, in IMail.
Basically, you'll enter the clients' domain name and mail server IP address
in your hosts file. This tells IMail to accept mail for the domain. In DNS,
set the clients' mail server as primary MX, with your IMail machine as
secondary. That way, when the clients' machine is online, IMail doesn't
need to process any of that domains' mail. When the clients's server is
offline, IMail will accept it and place the mail into queue. The clients'
server would be setup to issue an ETRN command to your IMail server when it
comes online. The ETRN command tells IMail to forward any mail it has
queued for the domain.
HTH,
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