> I'm trying to set up my Windows 2000 Server Imail server to > host two domains. The primary domain is domainA.com and the > virtual host will be domainB.com. I have two network cards in > this server - one for each domain and each has it's own ip address.
1) Why are you using two NICs and 2 IP's? Only reason why I can think you'd need this is if you were serving to separate internal networks with one mailserver - in which case you'd still only need one NIC with 2 IPs attached? Or you wanted customised login screens for web messaging? 2) Seeing as your using 2 IP's, why are you setting domainB.com as a virtual when you have your second IP address to use? > I have DNS running on my Windows 2000 domain. The problem is, > with the server's name being "mail", how can I differentiate > between mail.domainA.com and mail.domainB.com internally? I don't think the name of your server is relevant. Imail will differentiate between domainA.com and domainb.com by the destination IP address in the packets from the clients/the IP address the clients connect to (see point 2 above). IE have mail.domaina.com point to IP1, and mail.domainb.com point to IP2. As I said above though, if this is what your doing you wouldn't setup domainb.com as a virtual. If there is no reason for them to be on separate IP addresses, you may as well use domainb as a virtual, as you have - Imail would then differentiate which POP account you wanted to collect by having your username include the domain. Example: A) If you had two IP address, domaina = IP1 & domainb = IP2, Imail would know that anybody connecting to IP1 was interested in domaina, and anybody connecting to IP2 is interested in domainb. B) If you had one IP address, domaina = IP1 & domainb = virtual. Imail would assume that anybody connecting to IP1 with a username of 'user' or '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' was interested in domaina. Imail would also then assume that anybody connecting to IP1 with a username of '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' was interested in domainb. There are a few options here but because I don't know what your trying to achieve I don't know which one will be best for you. Hope all that makes sense though. Regards, Lyndon ************************************************ Email checked by UKsubnet anti-virus service To prevent email abuse & block spam contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44(0)8712360301 Web: www.uksubnet.net Fax: +44(0)8712360300 Powered by UKsubnet Internet Service Provider Business to Business Internet (ISP) ************************************************ 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/
