Hi,
We have hundreds of domains using web mail with automatic redirection and we
have setup a simple way to do a redirect for all of them.
We tell our customers to simply type in http://webmail.their_domain.com and this
procedure does the rest:
1) On IIS we setup a web server using a single IP address. (lets pretend its
192.168.1.100)
2) We created a file called default.asp and put it into the document root for
this web server. The contents of this file are:
<%
'This script redirects a users webmail request to the proper domain
'request required by Imail which is mainly :8383
If InStr( lCase(Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_NAME")), lcase("webmail") ) > 0
Then 'eol
dim getdomain,namesize ' eol
namesize = len(LCase(Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_NAME"))) 'eol
getdomain = mid(LCase(Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_NAME")),8,namesize) 'eol
getdomain = "http://mail" & getdomain & ":8383" 'eol
Response.Redirect(getdomain) 'eol
End if
%>
3) IN the DNS record for w2khosting.com (our primary domain name) we created an
A record called webmailsrvr.w2khosting.com:
webmailsrvr IN A 192.168.1.100
4) In the DNS record of ALL our Imail customers domains we put in a CNAME
record:
webmail IN CNAME webmailsrvr.w2khosting.com.
Thats it!
In step 4) you could have used an A record pointing to the IP address
192.168.1.100 instead of a CNAME but we wanted flexibility in case we ever had
to move the web mail redirect server
Please note in the script above I put 'eol in the script to denote end of line
in case my mail client wraps the line and makes the script unreadable.
Andy Paluch
----- Original Message -----
From: Len Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 5:56 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] http://www.domain.com:8383 ??
: I think it was in this the list just a few days ago where people were
: talking about how to use IIS to "redirect" http page requests for
: mail.patrick.be.kz arriving at default port 80 listened to by IIS to
: port 8383 listened to by Imail.
:
: If I'm dreaming or confused or misunderstood what they were talking
: about and that's not do-able, then the answeer is "no":
:
: Imail will listen on ports 80 or 8383 or 8181 wherever you tell it
: and on ALL ip's on the machine.
:
: IIS must listen on other ports.
:
: ie, Imail and IIS cannot both cannot listen on port:80.
:
: Len
:
: =====================
:
:
: >Len
: >
: >I cannot do this if I have IIS5 on the same machine not?
: >
: >Patrick
: >
: > > >Now I need to do http://www.Patrick.be.kz:8383 to login to my webmail.
: > > >How can I make it so that i can do http://mail.patrick.be.kz to
: > > get to the
: > >
: > > In Imail:
: > >
: > > set web mail port to :80 (can't have IIS there)
: > >
: > > In dns:
: > >
: > > mail.patrick.be.kz A ip.ad.re.ss ; of your virtual host
: > >
: > > in browser: http://mail.patrick.be.kz and logon
: > >
: > > Len
: > >
: > >
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