Re: [cobalt-developers] SMTP Email

["Joel Holtzman" <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

as a wise man once said

bleh

earthlink = bleh

that's what I get out of this. Time to install a web based mail, or just let
them enjoy mail forwarding, what a shame. But of course, I can't install the
4.0 update so maybe neomail will cause error too lol

In short, raq 3 + earthlink = headaches

:)

Joel
----- Original Message -----
From: <jale@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] SMTP Email


>
> > > 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
>
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