Clifford,
Thanks for the feedback! Did the KB/Manuals help, too? Any suggestions for
making these better?
Daniel Donnelly
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Clifford Law " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 5:16 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] re. aliases
> I replaced the commas by a space in my list of host aliases and that fixed
the problem. Thanks for your responses.
>
> Clifford.
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: "Daniel Donnelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 16:53:40 -0400
>
> >Jason,
> >
> >A 'full address' is always better than just a username, in the definition
of
> >an Alias.
> >
> >As a matter of fact, under some conditions (like DNS maybe not working
> >correctly or not available, like in an intranet) I would even go so far
as
> >to recommend the address be in the form: [EMAIL PROTECTED], where
> >machine.domain.name, is that used by IMail for the 'Official Host Name',
> >just to be most explicit. This way IMail will be sure to find the
'correct'
> >user in the 'correct' domain. Although if you have only one domain, you
can
> >get away with just the username, if all other things are correct (the
> >computers and IMail's configurations and with a fully functional and
correct
> >DNS and HOSTS file). This does not mean that the shorter @domain.name
form
> >cannot be used, just that when one is having troubles, it is always
better
> >to be as explicit and correct, as possible.
> >
> >Since Clifford seems to be a newbie and has lots of rather routine
> >questions, I think he would be helped by using the KnowledgeBase and
> >checking the manual. Might get his answers much faster than waiting for
us
> >to answer.
> >
> >Daniel Donnelly
> >________________________________________________________
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Jason Weatherhead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 2:24 PM
> >Subject: RE: [IMail Forum]
> >
> >
> >> I believe in an alias that you do not put the fully qualified address
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather just the username. Clifford
> >>
> >> Jason Weatherhead
> >> Airswitch
> >> Network Systems Engineer
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 12:04 PM
> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum]
> >>
> >>
> >> > Aliases don't seem to be working for me. I am trying to create an
> >> > alias clw for my email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] For alias
> >> > creation, I type clw as the alias and [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the
> >> > destination but when people email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't receive
> >> >the email. Can somebody tell me what I am doing wrong?
> >>
> >> I can't, but you probably can.
> >>
> >> Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Take a look at the SYS1003.TXT
file.
> >> See what information is in there regarding the E-mail. If you can't
> >figure
> >> it out, you can post a snippet here and we can help.
> >> -Scott
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