I want to know something.

I want to set up a e-mail service, something like Hotmail.com

But offer additional domain names, such as hotmail.com, msn.com, etc.

So

My Question is, can I have a seperate server for all of my e-mail...

And my webserver on another server, so that to check their email etc,. they log into

somethingmail.com

but the domains they will use have their websites on another server..

So incase the website ever goes down, the mail is still up with thename@domain.com still working, EVEN if the webserver is ever down.

What do I need to do? DNS mods, etc. Server Set ups, thanks

Edit MX entries for the domains to point to the server you want to run your mail from.

sweeet :D what if i have like say mail.domain.com mx pointing to the mail server, will that also take care of someone@domain.com or only somone@mail.domain.com?

Hi!
It will take care of someone@domain.com
You get solutions like bigmailbox.com or everyone.net
There are other paid solutions too available on the net.

Have a nice day :)


Regards
Amar

BOB cares ROcKs :)

You can register a bunch of domains and have the MX records pointed to your e-mail server and the A/CNAME records pointed at the webserver. Then install squirrelmail along with the virtualhost plugin and that should spiff things up so they can have webmail (which I personally loathe... give out pop3 accounts instead and just set quotas!) Either way I forsee many spamming complaints in your future by giving out free e-mail accounts.