[imp] Re: Remote mail server fix?

Paul Rentschler paulr at librariansbooklink.com
Mon Sep 27 06:50:34 PDT 2004


Joe,

My MX record points to the name mail.mydomain.com then I have CNAME
entries for mail.mydomain.com and webmail.mydomain.com which both
point to the same IP address.

Hopefully that helps. I'm not a whiz at DNS and I'm actually doing my
DNS through my registrar (register.com).

Paul


Quoting jm <jm at 3.oli.us>:

>
> Hi Paul,  thank you for the insight.  Question: Do you have
> webmail.mydomain.com pointing to your IP address within your MX
> record?
>
> Thanks, Joe
>
>
> > From: Paul Rentschler <paulr at librariansbooklink.com>
> > Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:05:45 -0400
> > To: imp at lists.horde.org
> > Subject: Re: [imp] Remote mail server fix?
> >
> > I would agree. I think this is a DNS configuration error more so
> than
> > a problem with IMP.  I currently have my MX record pointing to
> > something like mail.mydomain.com and my IMP installation is
> hosted at
> > webmail.mydomain.com. Now both names point to the same IP
> address, but
> > it seems to me that the A and MX record should not have to be on
> the
> > same host for IMP to work.
> >
> > HTH... Paul
> >
> >
> > Quoting John Wiles <john.wiles at netonestop.com>:
> >
> >> Read up on pointing a host to another box without changing the
> main
> >> A
> >> record for the domain. A suitable solution is available at most
> >> dns/bind
> >> sites.
> >>
> >> However, I believe this is beyond the scope of this list.
> >>
> >> john
> >>
> >> jm wrote:
> >>
> >>> However, when the user changes his A record and MX record to be
> >> the same IP,
> >>> Webmail works.  When the A record points to his other provider,
> >> Webmail
> >>> returns an invalid login message everytime.
> >>>
> >>> Any advice?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> From: Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>
> >>>> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:00:25 -0400
> >>>> To: imp at lists.horde.org
> >>>> Subject: Re: [imp] Remote mail server fix?
> >>>>
> >>>> Quoting jm <jm at 3.oli.us>:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> A user has a website hosted with one provider, and uses
> another
> >> provider for
> >>>>> Email Hosting.  The email hosting company has Horde WebMail
> >> installed, but
> >>>>> this user is unable to use the WebMail because Horde seems to
> >> require the A
> >>>>> Record and the MX record to point to the same IP number.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Is there any fix for this?
> >>>>
> >>>> Eh? Horde doesn't care about either of those.
> >>>>
> >>>> -chuck
> >>>>
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> >> John
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> >>
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