Re: Registering mail hosts

Chris Salter wrote:

> The final receiving 'mail host', which I will call 'domain Z
> extension', is a pop3 server running on my PC, i.e. I have configured
> it to use domain Z in the receiving header it generates.

I wouldn't call that Z your 'final receiving mailhost' according to the
par below.

> I have domain A hosted at a different service
> provider which automatically collects mail from domain Z and drops it
> in a domain A pop3 mailbox.

I would call /that/ A your final receiving mailhost.  There just above
you are saying that all of the mail from all of the different places
that you receive at Z is 'collected' - which I presume to mean
forwarded - from Z to A - at A mailbox.  There above it sez that A is
last, right after Z.

> the
> final destination of all mail for those domains and of course Domain
> A is my local pop3 server, domain Z extension.

I thought you just said that Z mail was forwarded to A -- you said A
collects mail from Z.  Now you are saying that Z is last.  That is
discordant.

> My registered Spamcop address is in Domain A, not Domain Z.

I don't think the registered spamcop address is important here except
that it identifies the account.

> The problem is that the first hosting domain configuration page (which
> has to be for the last receiving host) appears to be tied into the
> spamcop reporting address which is NOT the last receiving host in the
> chain.
>
> Advice anyone?

Think of your registered address as your 'account number' rather than a
username+domainname.

But I'm confused about the discrepancy mentioned above about which is
the last host in the chain between A vs Z.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin