Re: [cobalt-users] DNS MX and mail questions

["Martin" <mbruinsm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> I manage my own DNS on Cobalt RaQ2s. I have a domain situation where I
want
> domaina.com to accept mail for domainb.com into the user@xxxxxxxxxxx
> mailbox. Of course, I want user@xxxxxxxxxxx to still accept mail into the
> user@xxxxxxxxxxx as well.
>
> I will be pointing the www.domainb.com traffic to www.domaina.com site as
> well on a separate RaQ4.
>
> I guess the most confusing point(s) about this are A) how to get the mail
> to work correctly and B) what to do about Apache's httpd.conf aliases when
> I already have and want the virtual host set up as www.domaina.com and the
> alias set as domaina.com. And finally C) I would really like to set up
> domainb.com as a CNAME record of domaina.com. That is the true intended
> purpose of domainb.com. But, as I've heard (and adhered to) so many times
> on this group, CNAME records are trouble on a Cobalt.
>
> Suggestions?

I think you should add A and MX-records for domainb.com pointing to
domaina.com's IP. Next bring up the Cobalt Site Administration for
domaina.com. In the Web Sever Aliases field add domainb.com and
www.domainb.com (you can have more than one alias if that is what you mean).
Now domainb.com shares the same IP as domaina.com as well as the same
webpages, etc...

As for the email, have you tried the following: bring up the user details
for user@xxxxxxxxxxx in the Cobalt Administration. Edit the email
properties, and in the Email Aliases textbox add @www.domaina.com . This
line makes that user catch all email for domaina.com (which because of the
DNS records also includes email for domainb.com), except of course for email
to other users at domaina.com.
Hope this works. Well, it does for me, since I have nearly the same
situation as you do.

Martin