RE: [IMail Forum] Mail.domail.com vs domain.com

[David Lapides]

Historically, the "www" "ftp" and "mail" qualifiers on the hostnames were to allow DNS to route traffic to the approrpriate machine. Most of the time, mail (SMTP)services are run from a different machine than web (HTTP and FTP) services. If you are planning on always running mail from the same box as your web services, then there is really no "good" reason (except for convention and possibly clarity) to use a "mail" qualifier. But if you ever need to move your mail service to a different machine, you are going to have a bit problem. With the "mail" qualifier, all you have to do is make a simple DNS change. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeff Vitale Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 6:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IMail Forum] Mail.domail.com vs domain.com Question for the experts out there. Is there any reason NOT to drop the "mail." from official host names?  I have several domains setup as mail.domain1.com and mail.domain2.com, etc.  What is the advantage of using mail. versus just setting them up as "domain1.com", "domain2.com", etc .  The "mail." just seems to add another dns entry and it then requires a stripped down host alias for folks who want shorter email addresses.  What am I missing here????   Thanks