The
officail host name would be mail.tropicalwebcreations.net
Ideally, as far as DNS goes, there should be know PTR
records for the virtuals, as they really don't exist. tropicalwebcreations.net
is the only 'real' address.
You
would have to explain in more detail what you mean by 'not from a remote
machine'.
Harry E. Hanson
Cutting Edge Communications, Inc.
509
444-INET 800 660-9541
http://home.cet.com/
-----Original Message-----Hi all. I'm new to the list, new to NT, new to IMail, new to DNS, and new to being a hosting company. LOL So... there's my background. :)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bud
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 3:18 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [IMail Forum] Help with virtual host setup
I've got a question on DNS setup as I've heard different stories from different folks and I guess I'm reading the IMail knowledge base wrong.
First, I'm using MS DNS Server. I know, that's probably my first mistake, but being new it seemed a little easier to implement than Bind. :)
I'm running IMail on the same machine as the web server... for now. I'm running virtual domains under O'Reilly's WebSite 2.x and virtual IP's on all my client's e-mail accounts. The main Imail account is set to 216.242.16.196 under the domain tropicalwebcreations.net, and I have an A record for "mail' pointing to that IP in the tropicalwebcreations.net zone file and of course a PTR record pointing back at it in in-addr.arpa. And the MX record pointing to mail.tropicalwebcreations.net.
All this works fine. I'm having problems in some instances connecting to the virtual hosts for sending mail. There doesn't seem to be any problems retrieving mail. Right now I have my DNS files for my client domains like so:
virtualdomain.com MX 10 mail.tropicalwebcreations.net.
mail 216.242.16.196
Now, what should I put in in-addr.arpa? The people at Men & Mice (makers of DNS Expert) have told me that under no circumstances should I point the same IP address to different domains in there. But reading the ipswitch knowledge base, it says:
"You will need a PTR (reverse-lookup) record that resolves the IP address of your IMail PC to the Official Hostname of your IMail domain.
(Many large ISPs will drop your connection if they cannot match your IMail hostname with a PTR record for your IP address.)"
When it says Official Hostname, is that the Official Hostname, mail.tropicalwebcreations.net? Or the Official Hostname of the virtual mail host? I read it as the virtual host.
I've tried it both ways, with and without the additional reverse lookup records, and still have problems sending mail. For instance, I can send mail from the virtual host mail.twcreations.com using ColdFusion mail and cgi forms from the machine, but not from a remote machine. However I can send mail from a remote machine if I use mail.tropicalwebcreations.net.
Thanks for any help y'all can point my way.
Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations
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ColdFusion Solutions / eCommerce Development
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.twcreations.com/
954.721.3452
