<% response.redirect (http://mail.domain.com:8383) %>

where mail.domain.com is the url they are typing in?

Just curious

Dan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Hagerman" <it@advancedisp.net> To: <IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 10:53 AM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] http://www.domain.com:8383 ??

Here is the message he is referring to it is still in my box

-----Original Message----- From: IMail_Forum-owner@list.ipswitch.com [mailto:IMail_Forum-owner@list.ipswitch.com]On Behalf Of Andy Paluch Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 1:22 AM To: IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] http://www.domain.com:8383 ??

Hi,

We have hundreds of domains using web mail with automatic redirection and we have setup a simple way to do a redirect for all of them. We tell our customers to simply type in http://webmail.their_domain.com and this procedure does the rest:

1) On IIS we setup a web server using a single IP address. (lets pretend its 192.168.1.100)

2) We created a file called default.asp and put it into the document root for this web server. The contents of this file are:

<% 'This script redirects a users webmail request to the proper domain 'request required by Imail which is mainly :8383

If InStr( lCase(Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_NAME")), lcase("webmail") ) > 0 Then 'eol dim getdomain,namesize ' eol namesize = len(LCase(Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_NAME"))) 'eol getdomain = mid(LCase(Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_NAME")),8,namesize) 'eol getdomain = "http://mail" & getdomain & ":8383" 'eol Response.Redirect(getdomain) 'eol

End if %>

3) IN the DNS record for w2khosting.com (our primary domain name) we created an A record called webmailsrvr.w2khosting.com:

webmailsrvr IN A 192.168.1.100

4) In the DNS record of ALL our Imail customers domains we put in a CNAME record:

webmail IN CNAME webmailsrvr.w2khosting.com.

Thats it!

In step 4) you could have used an A record pointing to the IP address 192.168.1.100 instead of a CNAME but we wanted flexibility in case we ever had to move the web mail redirect server

Please note in the script above I put 'eol in the script to denote end of line in case my mail client wraps the line and makes the script unreadable.

Andy Paluch

----- Original Message ----- From: Len Conrad <lconrad@Go2France.com> To: <IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com> Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 5:56 PM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] http://www.domain.com:8383 ??

: I think it was in this the list just a few days ago where people were : talking about how to use IIS to "redirect" http page requests for : mail.patrick.be.kz arriving at default port 80 listened to by IIS to : port 8383 listened to by Imail. : : If I'm dreaming or confused or misunderstood what they were talking : about and that's not do-able, then the answeer is "no": : : Imail will listen on ports 80 or 8383 or 8181 wherever you tell it : and on ALL ip's on the machine. : : IIS must listen on other ports. : : ie, Imail and IIS cannot both cannot listen on port:80. : : Len : : ===================== : : : >Len : > : >I cannot do this if I have IIS5 on the same machine not? : > : >Patrick : > : > > >Now I need to do http://www.Patrick.be.kz:8383 to login to my webmail. : > > >How can I make it so that i can do http://mail.patrick.be.kz to : > > get to the : > > : > > In Imail: : > > : > > set web mail port to :80 (can't have IIS there) : > > : > > In dns: : > > : > > mail.patrick.be.kz A ip.ad.re.ss ; of your virtual host : > > : > > in browser: http://mail.patrick.be.kz and logon : > > : > > Len : > > : > > : > > http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com: ISC BIND 8.2.2 p5 & 8.2.3 T6B for NT4 & W2K : > > http://IMGate.MEIway.com: Build free, hi-perf, anti-spam mail gateways : > > : > > : > > : > > : > > : > > : > > : > : > : > : > : > : : : http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com: ISC BIND 8.2.2 p5 & 8.2.3 T6B for NT4 & W2K : http://IMGate.MEIway.com: Build free, hi-perf, anti-spam mail gateways : : : : : : :