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For a number of reasons I am currently hosting my CiviCRM database on a subdomain of my own personal site (crm.personalsite.com). However, for purposes of looking official, I need all of the emails to look like they're coming from a subdomain on my organization's address (i.e. board@subdomain.officialsite.org).  My personal site is hosted on Dreamhost.

I have already arranged for the MX servers at officialsite.org to be updated so that all email from subdomain.officialsite.org is delivered to crm.personalsite.com, but I'm not really sure what I need to do from here.

I've also set up a board@crm.personalsite.com address on my dreamhost account and was hoping to use CiviMail for mass mailings and simply use thunderbird to do individual replies to emails sent to board@subdomain.officialsite.org.

Overall, however, I am feeling a bit in over my head as to where to go from here.  Am I correct in thinking I need to go with the alternative return path configuration with imap2soap.pl?

Whatever suggestions you might have would be pretty well appreciated at this point.

Contrary to advice, I decided to plow ahead and things seem to be going ok.  I've gotten a customized PHP 5.2.5 up and running with --enable-soap and I've gotten most all of the necessary perl modules installed.  The only one giving me trouble is MIME::Entity, which fails out with the following message when I try to install it using CPAN:

Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
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t/Entity.t   255 65280    30   30 100.00%  16-30
t/Head.t     255 65280    20   38 190.00%  2-20
t/Parser.t   255 65280    31   62 200.00%  1-31
t/Ref.t       11  2816    50   11  22.00%  1 11 13 17 19 21 27 31 33 35 47
2 tests skipped.
Failed 4/19 test scripts, 78.95% okay. 76/337 subtests failed, 77.45% okay.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255
  /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK

I've force installed it as it suggests is possible, but I'm having second thoughts about whether that was a good idea.  I know this isn't strictly within the area of expertise of CiviCRM, but I'm hoping that maybe someone else will have encountered this problem and can offer an opinion as to whether its ok that I force installed this or if there's some important reason it is failing.

Thanks in advance for the help.