Re: SMTP server/slightly off topic

[Patrick Townsend <townsend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Booth,

What I was meaning to suggest is that Carl's ISP could actually register
van400.ediconsulting.com as a valid email domain. Depending on the type
of connection he has the mail could flow automatically to his LAN mail
server or he could pick it up from his ISP mailbox. Once on his local
mail server all mail for van400.ediconsulting.com could be forwarded to
the AS/400, and mail for users at ediconsulting.com could be forwarded
to his LAN mail system. As you've suggested he could get any number of
email domains registered.

Alternatively, you can set up mail forwarding based on an individual
name in most mail servers. For example, on our mail server we could set
up the email address "as400@patownsend.com" to forward to
"user@as400.patownsend.com". 

Anyway, there are lots of ways to skin this cat. It depends on what you
are trying to do, how many addresses are involved, etc.

Patrick

boothm@earth.goddard.edu wrote:
> 
> Patrick, please explain this a bit more?  I'm understanding you to say
> that if Carl sets up a DNS server in his LAN, and it is pointed to by the
> ISP, than all traffic coming to his domain (ediconsulting.com) will go to 
>Carl's DNS server for routing? In that fashion, carl could
> then have   carl@ediconsulting.com   or  carl@van400.ediconsulting.com   or 
>carl@service.ediconsulting.com  or  carl@sales.ediconsulting.com, all fully 
>functioning mail domains on his system?
> _______________________
> Booth Martin
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> Patrick Townsend <townsend@patownsend.com>
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> 01/05/2000 05:37 PM
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>         Subject:        Re: SMTP server/slightly off topic
> 
> Carl,
> 
> A couple of thoughts:
> 
> 2. Or, you could just send with the from domain of ediconsulting.com. If
> you have a local mail router you use a reply-to address that would route
> to the AS/400.
> 
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