Re: [cobalt-users] Cobalt RAQ4 Mail problem

[Mark Bitterling <mark@xxxxxx>]

Eurowolf@xxxxxxx wrote:

> 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



I am not using the Cobalt for DNS.

When I found this problem, I tried setting up the DNS on the Cobalt in order to
try to fix the problem, but since that did not help anything, I turned the RAQ
DNS off again.

Mark Bitterling
mark@xxxxxx