> domain.com (we use the standard 'example.com' on the list, FYI) IS an > FQDN. But the "problem" with using it as the official host name, as > explained in the archives, is not RFC-related, it's DNS-related. Only > if your IMail machine is not just the MX for example.com, but ALSO is > the A for example.com in DNS, are you free to use the shortened name.
This doesn't make any sense to me. My DNS for domain.com is set up like this (fake domains names and IPs obviously): ;mail @ IN MX 5 mail.domain.com. @ IN MX 10 mail.backupmail.com. ; @ IN A 192.168.1.1 mail IN A 192.168.1.20 www IN A 192.168.1.1 In Imail, I set it up as domain.com, with mail.domain.com as an alias. This performs just like I want it to; email works, and entering either www.domain.com or domain.com brings up the web server; entering mail.domain.com brings up Killer Webmail. The only way I can see this being a problem is if some mail server decides not to deliver to either MX and tries the A record instead. Is this really a problem? Am I missing something? Thanks, Paul Navarre To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
