John, I can understand your predicament -- many of us have been through this. There is simply not any "transparent" way to effecting the change that I know of. (Other list subscribers: Please correct me.)
IMail cannot "intelligently" associate a user account (just the user name) with a newly-developed IP-less virtual domain. If it did so, the product would be in the realm of Artificial Intelligence and would sell for much more ;) You are not alone in facing such a migration issue; we've all been through this. It's all a matter of "user education" and getting them to enter [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than just BritneySpears as their user name at login time. Add to this that, depending on their MUA (e-mail client), they may have to enter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's ugly but it's not really an IMail problem, in my opinion. This has to do with how MUAs handle outbound addresses. Then comes the matter of forcing all your users to check "My server requires authentication" or something to this effect, assuming that you have your IMail Server configuration [correctly] set to "No Relay" or "Relay for Addresses", for instance. It's hell. But this is not an IMail Server issue. You could use any other MTA (mail transfer agent) other than IMail Server and be faced with the same issues. In a nutshell, the Internet is still what it was (wide open) a couple of decades ago. You want to protect your users for their own good (SMTP AUTH), even if it means educating them and have them change settings in their MUAs. Been there, done that. After a period of turmoil, your users will thank you. (Fat chance...) But, really, what I wrote is the norm today. Guy ----- Original Message ----- From: "John N. Ecker II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 4:05 PM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Migrating from real IPs to Virtual Hosts > 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 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/
