RE: [cobalt-users] DNS HOWTO - MX Record www.domain.com - Why?

["Alex Lee" <alex@xxxxxxxxxx>]

To recap,

www.mydomain.com - The Virtual Site you created, Users here want to
receive mail.

Created identical A records for www.mydomain.com , mail.mydomain.com and
mydomain.com.

You will need to add mydomain.com as a Web Server Alias to
www.mydomain.com so that hitting mydomain.com via a browser will go to
www.mydomain.com

The way you want to do it for emails will work if you add
mail.mydomain.com as a Mail Server Alias in the Site Settings for
www.mydomain.com

But why the redundancy? There's nothing funny or weird about setting MX
to www.mydomain.com - you are getting too fixated on the "www" part of
the domain name.

It's the *name of the virtual site* that matters and it just happens to
be www.mydomain.com


alex

> -----Original Message-----
SO - which is it? Why this funny mail server = www.domain.com business?

If I set up

A record for mydomain.com > x.x.x.x
A record for www.mydomain.com > x.x.x.x
MX record for mail.mydomain.com > x.x.x.x
(no PTR because it's a name based site)

Would this NOT work?