Topic: Awkward Customer

[gbentley]

Hi All,

I think this may be obvious but would like some
feedback on it (is it sane?)

I have a client with SME 6 box.

I registered their domain and some services
with an ISP.

companyandpartner.co.uk - all mail gets directed
to a sinlg e multidrop mailbox at the ISP and collected by SME from there.

Now they say they wanted companypartner.co.uk
(no and) which was available and registered
for them.

They want the latter as their official address
but for some reason also want to colect mail from
the former.

Apart from just forwarding any mail from the 'unknown' domain to the postmaster is there
a more elegant way of handling this ?

I thought maybe I could make an alias or virtual
domain and forward *@companyandpartner.co.uk to
a local user on companypartner.co.uk

What do you think ?

Thanks in advance for replying

[NickR]

If the new domain is going to forward its mail to the same multi-drop box as the existing one, you don't need to do anything, do you?

The headers get re-written by the forwarding MTA, so where the mail was sent to originally will be "lost" as far as the SME is concerned.  'Tis one of the advantages of collecting via POP3.

[Anonymous]

I think I do - There will be no matching user so the unmatched mail goes to the postmaster or gets returned to sender whereas I really want it to go to the user.

ie joeuser@domain1.com >> joeuser@smeboxdomain.com

[del]

Hi,

As long as there is a joeuser on the SME server the mail will be sent to that user regardless of what is after the @.
I have 5 domains all forwarding email to one pop3 box and SME collects them all and distributes them to the correct user no problems.
Why would you have a joeuser@companyandpartner.co.uk but no joeuser@companypartner.co.uk? Maybe you could set one of the domains as a virtual domain? Just my thoughts.

Regards,
Del