Topic: Email Bounce Conundrum

[Graham]

Hi All,

Can anyone advise or point me in the right direction ?

I have a SME box set up on a LAN hosting "mycompany.com"

It handshakes with my external ISP for SMTP relaying and
also POP3 collections [its on a dial up analogue line]

Only problem is, we also have some mailboxes at the ISP
which have the same domain name

So there is :-

     *@mydoamin.com [Which is what we pick up from]
   
     but also :-

    project@mydomain.com [which the projects pick up from]

The problem being when a user on the LAN tries to send
mail to one of the external projects [same domain] the
mailserver looks at itself and finds no user and returns the
mail - it never gets to the ISP SMTP server or to the outside
world.

The ISP say the seperate mailboxes have real MX records.

Is there anyway we could use those to address mail
or is there a better way around this ?

Many Thanks

Graham

[Anthony de Waal]

Not sure that this is what you need, but I'll give it a chance:
http://www.gopaperless.co.uk/
Kind greetings,
Thony

[Graham]

Thanks Ant  - Looks interesting !!

[Graham]

To get round this I created a seperate account in the
end users Ootlook Express config.

I called it 'External Projects' and specified the ISPs
"authorised" SMTP server address and filled in the
username and password required for authorisation.

In the case where users want to send mail to other
projects they just choose that account from the
the pulldown list on the compose dialogue.

Initially there is a delay on send whilst SME
establishes IP [its on dialup] which results in an
error msg.

I told them to ignore this and click send and receive
again.

On the second attempt the message gets sent succesfully.

For them to be able to view their own website [ie not look at SME]
I configured their browsers to use  a public proxy from the list at

http://www.publicproxyservers.com/index.html

This concludes my workaround for dial up SME servers in the UK.

Graham