Re: DNS Question

Mitchell B. Wagers ( (no email) )
Mon, 12 Jan 1998 07:08:21 -0800

Actually, that's not the problem at all. Eudora requires the POP account to
contain the POP server (complete name). Most mail clients don't require a
POP Account of: username@anything.domain.com, they only require username,
because that's all the POP server understands. Eudora parses the POP
server out of the POP Account.

At 11:44 AM 1/12/98 -0200, you wrote:
>Dumb mail clients, such the old eudora 1.52, cant find the mail server if
>the domain.com isnt pointed with an A record to the address of the mail
>server.
>
>To solve the problem I put a WWW server in the box with the mail server
>pointing to the webpages in my oficial WWW server.
>
>Its ugly but works...
>
>Just my 2 cents.
>
>Carlo=20
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>> De: Dale E. Reed Jr. <daler@iea.com>
>> Para: ntisp@emerald.iea.com
>> Assunto: Re: DNS Question
>> Data: S=E1bado, 10 de Janeiro de 1998 17:53
>>=20
>> Mitch Wagers wrote:
>> >=20
>> > That was somewhat inclusive, because not all MX records point to the
>same
>> > domain. The point is you don't have www and mail hosts pointed at the
>same
>> > machine unless of course they run all of that software on one machine.=
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>None
>> > the less, if you create an MX record for domain.com that points to
>> > mail.domain.com and have an A record for mail.domain.com and an A
>record for
>> > domain.com that points to a webserver, your mail will be routed
>correctly
>> > and you can type "http://domain.com" to get the web site.
>>=20
>> We have found LOTS of mailers are broken and don't use MX records
>> correctly. For this reason we always make sure the IN A is the
>> mail server.
>>=20
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