Setup main domain as mail.mydomain.com and set mydomain.com as alias. This works just
fine for me.
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Andrews, Bryan (COX-Atlanta)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:24:42 -0400
>I'm sorry to carry this thread on so long but...
>
>To clarify:
>
>-Yes I want all my users email to be [EMAIL PROTECTED]
><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> as opposed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> .
>-Almost all users are using webmail (but not all).
>-I am currently not having any problems or issues and I have no host
>entries.
>-My server is not named 'mail' but dns does point mail.mydomain.com to it's
>IP.
>-My primary domain is mail.mydomain.com currently.
>-I am using ODBC and SQL7
>-The only time I have ever used host entries is to forward mail for another
>domain to another mail server
>
>Does everyone have entries in their host file? Is this necessary only when
>your primary domain doesn't match you machine name? Because mine never has
>and I've not had a problem... yet.
>
>If I were to set up Imail fresh... there would be no entries in the host
>file other than 127.0.0.1 localhost.
>
>I could set Imail's primary host (at install) as mydomain.com (as opposed to
>mail.mydomain.com) and it would work fine? Or would I need the host entry
>pointing to itself?
>
>So assuming that the ip below is actually the localhost (127.0.0.1 =
>156.21.50.5) ... I should have these entries:
>
>127.0.0.1 localhost
>156.21.50.5 machinename.mydomain.com
>156.21.50.5 mail.mydomain.com (as this is what dns points to but my
>machine name is not 'mail')
>156.21.50.5 mydomain.com
>
>Thanks for the help on this....
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Quentin Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 10:01 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Reply to?
>
> Page 26 refers to a workaround for users installing Imail
>and want to use a
> different host name instead of the the real host name for
>your primary host.
> 127.0.0.1 local host
> 156.21.50.5 computers host name (primary mail host normally
>installed)
> 156.21.50.5(again) mail host you want to use instead of the
>default primary
> mail host
> something like an alias for
>the primary host
> but "not" because
> you're kind or renaming the
>primary host
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Andrews, Bryan (COX-Atlanta) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 9:41 AM
> Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Reply to?
>
>
> > Hmmmmm...... I have never had any entries in the host file
>except when I
> was
> > forwarding mail to another server (another domain
>forwarding to Exchange).
> I
> > have never had any problems either...
> >
> > Why wouldn't the entries below point to 127.0.0.1 unless
>they were
> > forwarding to another domain?
> >
> >
> >
> > Bryan Andrews
> > Senior Web Administrator
> > Cox Communications, Inc.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 9:14 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Reply to?
> >
> >
> > >I'm a little confused by page 26 from the 6.0 manual. It
> > refers to the host
> > >file as such:
> > >
> > >127.0.0.1 localhost 'this is normal
> > >156.21.50.5 mail.domain.com 'this is forwarding mail
> > coming to
> > >mail.domain.com to another server
> > >
> > >'add the following line
> > >
> > >156.21.50.5 'this is forwarding mail coming to
> > domain.com to the same
> > >server
> >
> > that's so Imail receives mail for
> >
> > domain.com
> > mail.domain.com
> >
> > >What if I am not using a server as a relay and mail is
> > coming directly to
> > >the IMAIL server?
> >
> > then the above is correct.
> >
> > The confusing part of "hosts" file is that is also where
>you
> > put the
> > ip.ad.re.ss and domain names for the Imail-relayed
>domains.
> >
> > But relayed domains DO NOT exist within Imail either as
> > default or virtual
> > mail domains. Relayed mail isn't "delivered" to Imail, in
> > technical terms,
> > in only passes through.
> >
> > >Also is it generally recommended that you use a smtp
>relay
> > to relieve the
> > >main server of those duties?
> >
> > No, that is suggested when you have an extremely busy
>Imail
> > server, like
> > the fellow that reported in here with one Imail machine
>with
> > 250,000 mail
> > accounts and 25 gb of traffic per day. He was dumping all
> > outgoing mail on
> > a Sun machine for delivery to Internet, but even there he
> > said he VERY
> > POWERFUL Imail machine was not very busy.
> >
> > Len
> >
> > Please visit
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