Re: [cobalt-users] E-mail questions

[Brian Kane <briankane@xxxxxx>]

We do this on a RAQ2. Make sure "Accept email for domain" is NOT CHECKED in
Site Management for the SITE you choose. Then configure DNS per
instructions the outside mail provider gives you.

You might carefully consider before you have an outside service take over
mail service for your main domain. We do this at DJ.NET, using
EVERYONE.NET's mail services, but we registered a separate domain for this:
DJMAIL.NET.

A second option would be to create a subdomain such as MAIL.YOURDOMAIN.COM.
Your user's addresses would be "name@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx". But you would
keep full control of your main domain's mail.

Once you sign up with such a service you're basically stuck with it for
life. Choose carefully. Migrating users elsewhere in the future could
become a major pain for everyone involved.

Brian
DJ.NET 

>Hi,
>I recently purchased a Raq3 and will be setting it up very soon, but I have
>an email question:
>
>One of our sites will be outsourcing an email service that enables free
>webmail with an automatic account setup via the web browser (something like
>Hotmail). We prefer to outsource this service because we're not very
>familiar with hosting yet and we don't want to overload our server or cause
>it to crash from our lack of experience. The question is: how do I disable
>email services for this site so that the outsourcing company takes care of
>them? also, can this site be our main Raq domain, or does it have to be a
>secondary domain? I'm affraid that if I disable email service for the main
>domain I will automaticaly disable it for all the domains in our raq.

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