Len, here are my answers:
1) I didn't make an alias. I entered a virtual host under: imail-menu-point
'official host name'
as it is described in the imail docu.
2) I did not take 127.0.0.1 as the IP-adress !!! As I said, the actual IP
is different
but the A record is correct.
3) Having trouble means this: "Your message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] was not
delivered" as an error answer to a test mail
to the mail-box. I will try to find out what imail is writing to:
home\spool\sysMMDD.txt
although the file is pretty big.
Thanks for the suggestion.
P.S.: In the meantime I think the problem is that the MX can be resolved
properly from domain.com
to mail.domain.com since a lookup on domain.com doesn't bring me back the
MX-mailer mail.domain.com.
Uwe
-----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Im Auftrag von Len Conrad
Gesendet: Sonntag, 7. Januar 2001 23:53
An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Betreff: Re: [IMail Forum] virtual-hosts and DNS
>I have IMail running on a single IP-address server.
>I have more than one domain running on that server.
you have added in Imail the virtual domain as domain.com with
mailhost alias of mail.domain.com?
>The second added domain, where I have problems with does have an MX record
>for the mail domain like "domain.com IN MX 10 mail.domain.com". I
>did as well make an A record for the mail-host like:
>the actual IP is different (the actual IP is different)
that's a reserved ip address for the localhost host. What yo want is this:
;zone file: db.domain.com
;
@ IN MX mail.somewhere.com
localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
mail IN A ip.ad.re.ss ; public ip address of Imail server
pop IN A ip.ad.re.ss ; public ip address of Imail server
webmail IN A ip.ad.re.ss ; public ip address of Imail server
smtp IN A ip.ad.re.ss ; public ip address of Imail server
Note that the hostname for the MX record has nothing to do with the
name of this domain.
>I am having trouble to send s.o. mail on: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (test is a given
>mail-box under domain.com and it exists what I checked).
"having trouble" means what symptoms? program? errors?
What errors do you see in the Imail log file imail
home\spool\sysMMDD.txt ? mmdd is month day
Len
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