Configuring email

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Daniel

Hi

2 questions.

First i have set up my pop3/smtp server but i dont understand why everyone
uses smtp.mydomain.com and pop3.mydomain.com? What is the benefit of this?

I just use www.mydomain.com ? Is this really dumb, if so why?

Second, i would like to set up webmail or a webmail service so i can log on
to my emails remotely through a browser rather than using email clients like
outlook all the time. How do i do this? do i have to set up ms exchange or
this facility built into win 2003 web server?

thanks!
 
Daniel,
1. When you use a e-mail program, such as Outlook, and have it setup for
POP3 access, and click the Send\Receive button is what happens is it finds
the mail server's host name you entered and uses port 110 to download e-mail
messages to your computer. So the difference between pop3.mydomain.com and
mydomain.com is mydomain.com is the host name of the web server, and
pop3.mydomain.com is the host name of the mail server. So the hostnames are
probably going to a different IP address. pop3.mydomain.com is nothing
special, its just what people use as the hostname for their pop3 server
because it is easy to remember. I hope all this makes sense.

2. I am not sure about the second questions because we do not use Win 2K3
web edition. You might look in to getting exchange server, because outlook
web access is a great tool. This is what we use.
 
Hi Jake

Thanks for the reply. I already knew what you explained in answer 1 but that
is why i am confused. You see on my server i can change my server in outlook
to pop3.mydomain.com and it still works. I know its subdomain which may
explain it (so the same ip address by the way not different), all i can
think is that as you say people create subdomains to handle the email
traffic. Again i dont know why this is, i presume there is a good reason
beyond 'neater' because so many people do it.

And i was thinking exchange is the way to go, i used to do that at my last
workplace, just wanted to see if i needed to use it anymore with 2k web
edition.

Thanks for your help
 
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