Jim,
As long as you do as instructed, the 'name' of the machine and the 'name' in
IMail can be different. It does not matter if they are the same
'domain.name' or different. The name IMail 'picked' should have been in the
form 'machine.domain.name' and if it was less than that, then I suspect the
name was not complete when assigned to the machine. W2K is different in this
aspect than NT4 (which allowed one to set a 'name' for NT networking and a
different 'FQDN' in TCPIP, it warned you when doing this, but was
possible!). Sorry, I don't know enough about W2K to say exactly what should
be done. I think the hostname needs changing and a domain name be added, but
cannot tell you where/how to do that. I would expect the name to resolve to
something like 'abcdefg.myhostingservice.name' to work in their network and
domain.
Daniel Donnelly
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Priest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 3:06 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] setup on Win2000 ?'s
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [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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