RE: AS/400 and POP server with ISP (was RE: firewall & proxy server)

>I was told that we need to tell the ISP to add an RX record to the DNS so
>that when we send mail using the AS/400 as a server, it knows how to do
>this.  Then the ISP said that the mail server domain has to be named:
>
>mail.servername.com
>
>So, let's say we access the AS/400 with www.servername.com.  Then we need
an
>RX DNS entry as mail.severname.com so that we can send and receive mail for
>user@servername.com?

Yes, that is correct.

>Does this sound right?  Is there anything special you have to do when
>setting up user names with WRKUSRSMTP?

not sure about this one...

>The end result is we want to be able to send and receive mail with the
>domain names set up... so we will have..
>
>user@server1.com
>and
>user@server2.com
>
>Both domains are accessable via www.server1.com and www.server2.com
>respectivley.

You will need 2 RX entries & mail running on both servers if these servers
are separate companies entirely.

Bill Paris

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