I am also faced with this problem... it's rather urgent that we find a
work-around. I have around 50 domains that all use the same server!
If we can't find a work around... I don't think we can use this mail
server...
Phillip Rexinger
www.adamsbusinessmedia.com
Director, Internet Operations
68-860 Perez Road
Cathedral City, CA 92234
760.770.4370
760.770.2797 FAX
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martha Flugstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 9:01 AM
Subject: [IMail Forum] Limit on the Alias field
> Hello everyone,
> We are in the process of converting our mail system from 22 Novell
> servers to one IMail server. We have converted thirteen servers so far.
> At the time that we converted the first server, the only way we could find
> to allow incoming mail to the old server name was to enter that name as an
> alias for the IMail server. And, only the fully qualified host name would
> work. That is, we had to enter hostname.domainname.edu. When we
converted
> the thirteenth server this week, we reached the 255 character limit on the
> alias field. We found a workaround by removing a server name that had
never
> been officially used for mail, but we will be in trouble next week if we
> don't find a solution to this. We had originally thought that if we had a
> CNAME record in the DNS for the Novell servers that this would be
adequate.
> We do have these CNAME records in the DNS and we are able to send mail
> locally with no problem even to the server that is not listed as an alias.
> However, sending from a account on hotmail.com fails with the message "550
> not a local host, not a gateway" unless we have the fully qualified
hostname
> in the alias field. Does anyone know what to do about this? Thanks for
> your help.
>
> Martha Flugstad
>
>
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