Reserved Subdomains?

[imajine]

When I go to mail.**** or webmail.****, I get the "There is no website configured at this address" screen (like when you go to server##.totalchoicehoisting.com). I need to login to access these two addresses, but they still looks the same. So I'm guessing these subdomains are reserved (?).

 

However, when I go to webmail.myotherdomain.com, I cannot connect, which I expected to be the case (mail.myotherdomain.com shows the "There is no website configured at this address" screen). So from that other domain, I could create a functional webmail subdomain.

 

So my questions are:

 

1) Which subdomains are reserved? (mail, ftp, etc.)

2) Why does webmail seem to be reserved at one domain?

3) I also know some directories are reserved (cpanel, mailman, etc.). Can I have a list of these?

 

Thanks

[TCH-Bruce]

Have you tried www.******/webmail

 

And sub.******/webmail

[imajine]

Yup. That's another reserved directory. But I was wondering why the "webmail" subdomain also acted as if it was reserved on one of my sites. I'm just asking out of curiosity, not from any functional/troubleshooting perspective.

[TCH-Bruce]

One of the tech guys could probably answer this one.

Edited February 29, 2004 by TCH-Bruce

[TCH-Rick]

I have used webmail as a subdomain on an account.

 

I haven't seen it lately but at one time the oddest problem with a reserved directory was using icon as a subdirectory. You also will run into problems if you try to use cpanel as a directory, or mailman, webmail, or sqmail as all of those are aliases we use for shared apps.

[imajine]

By default, I think Apache uses /icon (as with /manual) but I always thought it was /icons... Anyway, thanks! Mostly mail-related, I see!