Thank you everybody! I will try Sandy's remote mail gateway suggestion. Thanks again...
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sanford Whiteman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Serge Dergham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 9:11 PM Subject: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Sending mail only to specified domain > >I am not very familiar with DNS but we also have IIS running on that > >server that needs to serve some pages to the internet. Would > >disabling DNS mess this up? > > Depending on what your IIS app is doing, maybe, maybe not. Serving > basic HTTP pages doesn't need DNS at all; server-side actions such as > redirects would need to resolve names from the server. But you might > as well leave it up for future use. > > >Just take out the DNS adresses from the Imail adminisrtator DNS will > >still be available for SQL, if needed. > > This won't work. If Imail sees a blank, it uses Windows' DNS > server(s), so you haven't accomplished anything. But even pointing DNS > to a nonexistent or internal-only DNS server will not protect against > domain-literal addressing (look it up if you don't know what I mean). > What you can do is set Imail up to Send All Remote Mail Through > Gateway and give a nonexistent IP. Imail will try to send anything > that's leaving the machine through this host and will give up > completely after (Max Tries x Queue Timer) has expired. You might as > well set Max Tries to 1 to make this happen instantly. > > Sandy > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
