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Hi all,

this is my first post and i'm trying my best to explain everything so please ignore my mistakes if any!

I have registered with Dyndns Customer DNS service with my own domain name. But I would like to create sub-domain something like http://mail.mydomain.com so when people type http://mail.mydomain.com they will be redirect to http://mydomain.com/webmail and it must be cloak so all they will see is http://mail.mydomain.com. Further more because I have setup mail server on my home system which the MX record is http://mail.mydomain.com

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asked Nov 21 at 10:44 PM

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In order to reach http://example.com/webmail through http://mail.example.com/ you have the following options:

  • In case mail.example.com is behind a different IP address than example.com, simply add an A record for mail.example.com pointing to your related IP address. You need to have an A record for mail.example.com anyway, as you defined this in the MX record for example.com.

  • You probably can control the behavior of mail.example.com by your web server software. Look out for virtual hosting or virtual server. With this feature you can define to what content a visitor is directed when using a certain (sub)domain name.

  • Alternatively, make mail.example.com a WebHop Redirect cloaking http://example.com/webmail in a frame. But then you can't define it as MX destination any longer. (An MX record must point to a name having an A record. A WebHop Redirect however can't have an A record at the same time.)

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answered Nov 21 at 11:03 PM

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