> Thank you for confirmation. That blows. I guess any web hosting client must > use web based email I will have to install, what a shame Not true, Joel. They can get their mail from your server by setting up a "pop" account for receiving email in their email program. It should point to your machine, their domain name. We set up in DNS for our clients an A record for pop.theirdomain.com and tell them to set up their email client to GET mail as "username" from "pop.theirdomain.com". And we tell them to send mail by setting up their email client to whatever earthlink uses for outgoing email (if I remember correctly it's smtp.earthlink.net). They can then use theirname@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx as their return address. Works for me.
I ran into a problem trying this setup in Eudora - the question may be, does Earthlink require pop-before-relay. If so, you're sunk as you will need 2 personalities. Then all mail that comes into yourdomain.com that you reply to, you will have to change the personality on the out-going reply to your ELN smtp entry. I cannot remember the exact details, but I know we found it to be a royal pain and have dropped many of our earthlink accounts due to this.
If you can setup pop server as yourdomain.com and smtp as mail.earthlink.net - and ELN does not require the pop-before-relay, then it should be pretty easy to do. The only other thing is that users will see your header info as earthlink.net - this will bother some people and not others.
Yes, it can be done, it is just a question of how much you want to teach your end-users.
Danny