>That's the way I have looked at it, but I did not program IMail so I do not >know if there is something special about it that would cause the users guide >to tell me to examine the domain name information of my machine when naming >my primary host. 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?
yes >Len Conrad wrote: > > hint: call all your Imail hostnames "domain.com", > > and NOT "mail.domain.com". > >Why do you advise this? To Stop the Insanity of the Imail doc's advice. It's "encumbered" with this bad advice of making the mail domains mail.domain.com plus alias of domain.com, and they won't change it. "We've always limped this way. Why would not limp forever." But this screws up the default reply-to with [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is what almost nobody wants, ever. > The users guide suggests imail.domain.com and using >an alias of domain.com. yep, it's screwed up advice. ignore it >Seems like common practice to use mail.domain.com >for the mail server. no, it isn't. Do you send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ?? didn't think so. >Why do you advise not to use mail.domain.com? When they reply-to on one of your received messages, do you want your correspondents to send their reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ??? if the latter, you also have double records to do in DNS: Rentpro.com. mx 10 imailmachine.rentrpo.com. mail.Rentpro.com. mx 10 imailmachine.rentrpo.com. Len www.menandmice.com/DNS-training : DNS Training BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND for NT4 & W2K IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways 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/
