Hi Thomas - i just set up my first leopard mail server last week and
was stumped on that exact same problem for ages - it turns out the
"host name" as it's called in Server Admin is misleading, it's not
where you put the actual host name of the server - i.e. if you
change it from server.example.org to just example.org you should
find everything magically works as it's supposed to - that's what
happened to me anyway!
hope that helps..
..S.
--100% Japanese Apple and Cheerful Hamster
On 29/05/2008, at 11:24 AM, Thomas Jachmann|mindmatters wrote:
Hi all,
I want to set up my first Mac OS X Server. It will handle the
external email traffic for our main domain (say example.org). After
installing Mac OS X a few times and trying different settings, I'm
stuck. The server is named say server.example.org. In Server Admin,
under Mail Settings, the host name is set to server.example.org
whereas the domain name is set to example.org.
My problem: The email addresses the server uses are
user(at)server.example.org instead of user(at)example.org!
This is especially annoying for mailing lists. For group based
mailing lists, the wrong email address is used in Directory.app,
when displaying the group's details and klicking on the arrow next
to "Mailing list": A new mail window appears with
groupname(at)server.example.org. For mailman based mailing lists,
the default address is listname(at)server.example.com initially,
but I found a ways of setting this in the mailman admin interface.
A bit of work, but feasible.
So now my question: For a typical mail server setup where the
server's host name should be different from the domain served
(server.example.org vs. example.org), which settings have to be
made to achieve that email addresses always use the domain name
name(at)example.org whereas links (like links to group wikis,
mailing list admin pages etc.) always use the host name
server.example.org? This seems to be a typical requirement for a
mail server, so I'm surprised this neither can be setup intuitively
using the built in tools nor isn't mentioned anywhere in the docs
(there, the email addresses always use the host name as the domain
part).
Best regards,
Thomas
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