Re: [cobalt-developers] Getting rid of the @www.name.com

["contact" <contact@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Craig, 

As I was advised soon after joining this list. It may be more
appropriate for us both to join the Cobalt "users" list rather
then the "developers" list.

Here's the link.

http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-users

Glad the advice I passed on was helpful. It was what I was told
to do by my hosting company,and how my mail was set up to
finally get it working correctly for me.

Also, on a related note. Make sure your site can be accessed with
or without the "http://, http://www., www included with the domain.
Many websites can only be accessed by including the www. Ideally,
you'll want people to be able to access your website in all ways people
are likely to type it in including the domain alone. Like "domain.com".
This was people don't get the impression your site is not there or down.
Check your site and make sure you can get there by typing it all these
ways into your browser.

domain.com
http://domain.com
www.domain.com
http://www.domain.com

This is why we want both the site server set up to accept both
www.domain.com , domain.com  like so with a comma between
the two. When I learned this, I began to notice how many sites
don't take full advantage of this and can only be accessed by
including the www. So many people are accustom to just typing
the "domain" into their browser. So if you have or can get the
"dot-com" of your domain name, this has the advantage of being the
default extension on most popular browsers. As many people will
leave this out or habitually go to the dot-com forgetting your .net

-John



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>From: "Craig Burton" <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [cobalt-developers] Getting rid of the @www.name.com
>Date: Sun, Aug 18, 2002, 12:21 PM
>

> Thanks Guys,
>
> I have changed my MX record to mail.richelement.net (I gathered from your
> response that is the proper way to set it up)
>
> Then added mail.richelement.net to my site's email alias. Then removed
> richelement.net from my sites email alias (because I changed my MX record
> acordingly right?).
>
> And finaly changedmy mail client to mail.richelement.net (in and outgoing)
>
> That should be it as soon as the MX is updated, I'l send a mail in a few
> hours if it works. Thanks again.
>
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