Guy, I agree, and in a perfect world "1000 hours of Free AOL" disks would taste like chocolate! ;)
Problem is, I'm inheriting a mess....the joys of consulting! I'm sure most of my client's users were set up years ago and did not configure their email client software to login so fully qualified. So, my question, considering they are set up this way, is will it definitely cause problems or is IMail smart enough to associate the domain name with the username given the information provided? You see what I am getting at, right? Do I bill my client: 8.0 hours of consulting to migrate from Server A to Server B and recovering lots of IPs that they need --- or ---- 8.0 hours of consulting to migrate from Server A to Server B and recovering lots of IPs that they need and 200.0 hours of assisting hundreds of users to update their Outlook settings -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Guy Isabel Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 2:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Migrating from real IPs to Virtual Hosts John, The fact that e-mail users must enter their fully-qualified address while logging in takes care of the multiple-domains issue. On top of this, they all should use SMTP AUTH for security reasons. Migrating from dedicated IP domains to virtual domains should not be an issue as long as users log in using their fully-qualified adresses, e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] In short, users *must* enter their fully-qualified addresses as their login names *and* you should enforce SMTP AUTH for everyone. Guy ----- Original Message ----- From: "John N. Ecker II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "IMail_Forum@list. ipswitch. com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 3:14 PM Subject: [IMail Forum] Migrating from real IPs to Virtual Hosts > Maybe there's an FAQ on doing this, but I'm having trouble finding the > answer in previous posts. > > What are the procedures and pitfalls for migrating an IMail 7 installation > with multiple hosts and dedicated (real) IPs to a new server using virtual > hosts? Mosts of the user clients I am sure are set up to use simple user > names and passwords without the domain extensions ("johndoe" instead of > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]") and SMTP AUTH is not being used. Their POP3 and SMTP > server names are both entered as "mail.abc.com". > > Once the hosts and users are migrated, is there the issue of duplicate > recipient names on different hosts getting confused if the client has not > entered the full email address as the login name? For example: > > User "John Doe #1 at ABC.com" Outlook settings: > Email Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > POP3: mail.ABC.com (resolves to 123.123.123.1) > SMTP: mail.ABC.com (resolves to 123.123.123.1) > Account name: johndoe > Password: mydogsname > > User "John Doe #2 at XYZ.com" Outlook settings: > Email Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > POP3: mail.XYZ.com (resolves to 123.123.123.1) > SMTP: mail.XYZ.com (resolves to 123.123.123.1) > Account name: johndoe > Password: mybirthday > > If these two virtual hosts are on the same server, do they authenticate > properly or will they need to use a more robust authentication method? > > I've heard this rumored that this is a problem. I pray it is not! Yikes. > > > > 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 the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > 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 the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ 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 the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
