Andy,
Thanks for the info!
Can this be done on ONE PC?
regards,
Patrick Mast
www.Patrick.be.kz
> 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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