Another option is to go into the MMC, open the properties for the web, click
on "home directory" tab, choose "a redirection to a URL" option and type in
your http://mail.domain.com:8383 there.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Russ Porosky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Web iMail
> Russ's methods of WebMail location (I use all 4 of these to make sure that
> every browser can catch it):
> 1 - if you have an ASP server, you can use a
> <%response.redirect(http://mail.server.com:8383)%> at the top of the page,
> before ANY HTML code
> 2 - use a META REFRESH tag set for 3 seconds
> 3 - use a BODY onLoad event
> (onLoad="Javascript:window.location='http://mail.server.com:8383';")
> 4 - provide a link on the page to it
>
> So, make a default.asp or default.htm with any 2 of the above (or more),
put
> it in a folder called "email", and give users that address - like
> http://www.porosky.com/email for example. As far as I know, using all 4 of
> these methods (or 3 if you don't have ASP) will work on nearly every
> mainstream browser out there - netscape 2+, IE2+, Opera3+, NetPositive
> (BeOS), Mozilla... it should, in fact, work with any Javascript 1.0
> compliant browser.
>
> Disclaimer: this works fine for me, i've had no complaints of it not
> redirecting properly. i don't guarantee it will work for you however, so
> feel free to muck around with it.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carlos Fernandes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 8:29 AM
> Subject: [IMail Forum] Web iMail
>
>
> > I want to configure the web messaging portion of iMail to work without
my
> > users having to type the port number all the time.
> >
> > Is there a way to do this? Also, is there a way to get around having to
> > type the http:// when attempting to access the site? If I don't type
the
> > http manually, it doesn't connect.
> >
> > Example: I want them to be able to type something like mail.domain.com
> > instead of http://mail.domain.com:8383.
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Carlos
> >
> >
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