Topic: E-mail routing question.

[Allen]

Well, my venture in using SME has been pretty rewarding so far.

I have an e-mail question, that I can't find a good answer too. Maybe someone here can help me.

Right now we have our corporate sites, e-mail, etc. hosted externally with an outside provider. They provide webmail, pop3, etc.

I setup SME as our main file/print server internally. I want to use it to route e-mail for internal users, because it will save us lots of time and bandwidth (we have ADSL).

Basically, right now if I need to e-mail our CEO it goes from my PC via POP3 to our external POP3 server over our DSL and then comes back over the 'net to his POP3 account.  As you can see this is inefficient, and takes time (sometimes 5 minutes for an email to go through...and we also can't send any large attachments.)

What I want to have our SME system do is this...

1. All mail that we send to internal users goes through SME and routes that way. This will increase speed of delivery (local LAN) and eliminate size restrictions.
2. If we receive or send external e-mail, we want it to go through our ISP.

If I have our SME box with the same domain name as our hosting provider, then it makes things difficult.  

What i've done to make things work for now is put our SME box as a internal domain (cii.local) and add a new POP3 account in Outlook just for internal e-mail.

Is this the best way?  I guess, from what I can tell, the only other way would be for our Hosting provider to drop our mail and MX records and I would have to setup a new MX record for our mail/sme box.

Hmm..do i make sense? Long day..i'm tired. hehe

thanks!

~Allen

[Cyrus Bharda]

Allen,

That is exactly why I have done here, we host our own email, but because we are stuck on a 56k modem I do not want to host web services,.  So I setup our box, then asked our host to change our MX records to point to our ip as primary and then them as secondary and after 6 hours it was all good, working like a charm for 6 mths + now

The only thing you have to do is setup the web services ip in the hostnames panel to point externally, or whenever you go to load you your website it will be served from the sme box not your host.

And that's it, easy peasy! If you need any help just yell, I'll be more than happy to help you out!

Cyrus Bharda

[Steven]

You say that setting the sme domain to the name of your daomin would make things difficult, why would that be?
Just seems to me that nameing the sme and you domain the same would solve your problem very easily?

Steven

[Allen]

Hey, there...

Yeah..it would be easy...but setting my SME box as our domain hoses the DNS (it thinks that our internal server is the main one, whereas existing MX records points to our hosting provider.)

I have things fixed and working nice now. Eventually, once we get our static IP situated, I'll have our hosting provider change the MX record to point to our SME box for e-mail instead of their server.

Thanks for the tips everyone!

~Allen+