Well, this machine is being colocated at a hosting company - and they did
the initial Win2000 install - so the machine name is something totally
unrelated to mydomainname.com which is where I'm going to be getting mail.
I guess I'm still a bit confused since if I setup IMail using the default
'pick' - which for example is just "hostingmachine2" is that going to screw
up getting mail at 'mydomainname.com'. The HOSTS modification makes sense
though - I'll probably go that route since the mail machine is not going to
be on the same machine as the webserver.
Thanks
Jim
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Daniel Donnelly
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 1:53 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] setup on Win2000 ?'s
Jim,
IMail 'picks' the real machine name (FQDN) for this field automatically,
when installing as the 'best' thing to use (it is!, it is the real name of
the machine in TCPIP settings). If you do not use that name, you need to add
an entry in the HOSTS file. For a typical install:
FQDN='mail.mydomain.name' and you tell IMail 'mydomain.name', instead. HOSTS
file should be:
127.0.0.1 localhost
1.2.3.4 mail.mydomain.name
1.2.3.4 mydomain.name
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