How to setup mail.mydomain.com

[difner]

I am running windows xp with apache and Ability mail server.
How can i setup the web mail so it will come up when i goto mail.mydomain.com

Thanks,
Alan

[sillyme]

I think this is more of a DNS issue than mail server. You will need to add another A record to your DNS called mail.domain.com that points to your servers IP address just like you did for the http://www.domain.com A record.

The webmail service is pre set to monitor port 8000 so HTTP://mail.domain.com:8000 should pull up the webmail login screen. If it does not, check the template assignments in the ability mail settings.

I do not know that much about Apache but on IIS I had to move its smtp service to a port other than 25 so it would not compete with Ability.

If you do not have a static IP you will lose connection to both your mail and web server if your IP changes. http://www.no-ip.com/ is one company that offers a solution for those running servers on a dynamic IP.

Good Luck

[difner]

Thanks for the help
That worked

[Millennium]

You can use the ProxyPass directive of Apache in your virtualHost section.

<VirtualHost *>
ServerAdmin admin@domain.com
ServerName mail.domain.com
ServerAlias webmail.domein.com
ProxyPass / http://localhost:8000/
</VirtualHost>

[sillyme]

Great, I love it when it looks like I know something (lol).

since you are using an alias be sure that al the lookups in the wild that are used for verification that your server exists work. Some places like godaddy are being very very over the edge with blocking IPs

Good luck