Re: [cobalt-users] Cobalt RAQ4 Mail problem

[Eurowolf@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 5/13/01 11:00:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time, mark@xxxxxx 
writes:

<< 
 > WHY..BECAUSE that is how they were ment to use....use a cobalt raq for
 > hosting and email on the same box...it works like a charm...start doing mor
 > complicated set-ups and your in satans land... (or is it STAN ?...)We use 
the
 > cobalts for NON complicated hosting  combined with email on the same box.
 > IF we want to have the email on another box etc we just use our HP's
 > just dont use the cobalts for something they were nto built to do....and if
 > it does not work...... dont bitch.....the same as your ford Taurus, it 
won't
 > be able to run with they guys next door Porsche  or the girls next door van
 > which hold 15 rug rats.....
 
 You are saying that the Cobalt RAQ has been intentiaonally designed to ignore
 standard
 Interent rules and that it is not supposed to be used to host websites 
unless it
 also is
 allowed to handle mail for all mail accounts under the same domain?
 
 No where in any of the documentation does it say that it MUST ALWAYS be used
 as BOTH webhost AND webserver.  If that is true, then I want my money back.  
That
 
 is just absolutely absurd.  It makes no sense why they would not allow 
people to
 use
 the Cobalt RAQ as a webserver only.
  >>

Sure you can BUT dont use COBALTS DNS then...hey we got grabbed in the butt 
by assuming the DNS is like "REAL DNS"  we got hacked on the bind hack a few 
mo's ago...we did DNS on 2 HP boxes, BUT always assumed we had to clcik the 
DNS box on in order for the email etc to work...

Cobalt is doing a few things at the same time....like adding a DNS record 
also updates the sendmail aliases file...hell IF I add an entry in the dsn I 
need to also manually edit the aliases file for sendmail...here it happens in 
one step...ok so we were stupid....IF you have a 1 purpose box.II do have to 
admit that cobalt found an eloquent way to do all, w/o confusing a lot...we 
have rented out quite a few cobalt boxes, all to webdevelopers, who want to 
have their own box, and thus make a bit more $, and they work, because the 
users dont have as much knowledge as you 


please understand  that adding an MX record in your cobalt is NOT JUST adding 
a MS record !  that is all