Sandy has answered this pretty fully. I guess the confusion (if there is any) is coming from the subject of Primary Host name. This whole thread has to do with what should be set as the OHN (Official Host Name) for each domain. If you have further question let me know and I'll be glad to help if I can.
Eric S ----- Original Message ----- From: "Smart Business Lists" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Eric Shanbrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2002 7:34 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Primary Host Name > Eric, > > I would appreciate some additional exposition on this topic especially > about what might be broken and why. If it is just URL construction > why wouldn't the software construct the url based on the primary host > name? If the software is going to deviate from the primary host name > how does it "know" to use mail.domain.com or abc.domain.com or any > other combination for that matter? > > Terry Fritts > > Saturday, June 29, 2002 you wrote: > ES> IMPORTANT > > ES> Naming the OHN domain.com is a legacy thing to have your web > ES> messaging users have the reply-to field of domain.com rather than > ES> <machine>.domain.com. Although never recommended by us it _used_ > ES> to be fine. Now however with the growth of the product, continuing > ES> to do this WILL break other things (ie internally generated links > ES> to Web calendaring, SSL, etc). Go with what the manual says. It is > ES> correct. > > > 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/
