David, > I take it from your answer that there is nothing wrong > with me creating the IMail primary host using a name which is not related to > the tcp/ip hostname of the machine. Is that right?
I'm not Len (by a long shot) but, no, there is nothing wrong at all with naming your primary host differently from the NetBIOS machine name. As long as DNS knows about your host, you'll be fine. Also, you may/will eventually add virtual (IP-less) hosts to your mail server and they will be bound to be different from the primary host name. Again, no problem. > Len Conrad wrote: > > hint: call all your Imail hostnames "domain.com", > > and NOT "mail.domain.com". > > Why do you advise this? The users guide suggests imail.domain.com and using > an alias of domain.com. Seems like common practice to use mail.domain.com > for the mail server. Why do you advise not to use mail.domain.com? The general consensus on this list is that the user guide has it backwards (though it is not "wrong"). Common practice is rather to name the server "domain.com" and not "mail.domain.com". So, set the OHN to "domain.com" and add a Host Alias of "mail.domain.com" if you *really* want your users to have e-mail addresses of the form [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is not a common form these days. (An analogy is that many Web sites do not have "www" prepended to their URLs as was the norm a few years ago.) HTH, Guy 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/
