RE: [cobalt-users] Hosting dns and pop3 at a cobalt and website at an other server

[Robbert Hamburg <user@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 17:18, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
> > 
> 
> DNS (first server, if Cobalt RaQ3/4):
> If his domain is abc.com, setup his DNS with an 'A' record for the
> abc.com and www.abc.com pointing to the IP address of the server where
> the web site is hosted. Then add another 'A' record for mail.abc.com
> pointing to the IP address of the local server that is hosting his mail
> as well as the DNS you are using. Setup two 'MX' records in DNS - one
> pointing host 'www' to 'mail.abc.com' and the second to just
> 'mail.abc.com' leaving the host blank.

I figurerd that also thanks


> 
> POP3 (first server, if Cobalt RaQ4-similar for RaQ3):
> Add Virtual Site with 'www' as the host and abc.com as the domain name
> using the same IP as you put in DNS for the 'A' record of mail.abc.com.
> Add 'abc.com' as an email server alias. No web server alias or other
> options except preferred quota and number of users.
> 
> WEB SITE (second server, if Cobalt RaQ4-similar for RaQ3):
> Add Virtual Site with 'www' as the host and abc.com as the domain name
> using the same IP as you put in DNS for the 'A' record of www.abc.com.
> Add 'abc.com' to web server aliases and select any other options you
> want. No email server alias.

What happens if users send mail locally and usernames exists on both
boxes. Isnt sendmail delivering them locally first ???

Thanks for the feedback !

Robbert