> I can send and recieve email if I use the FQDN of our IMail
> server which is
>mail.nvws.net. Even though I have setup a host alias pointing to nvws.net,
>it doesn't work. If I send mail to myself from an outside source without
>the FQDN, it gets returned to me as undeliverable. Do you have any
>suggestions? Do I need to make any changes to our DNS?
i don't what you have in your DNS but you should have this:
nvws.net. MX 10 mail.nvws.net.
mail.nvws.net. MX 10 mail.nvws.net.
The DNS hostnames that could be used by mail addresses, will be
accepted by your Imail hostname and host alias.
Len
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