Topic: MAil in different locations with same domain

[koegies]

I have a head office where my SME server connecting with ADSl , the mail for the internal network is working fine .
The branches on different locations have the same domain name and works with the ISP's mail server pop& SMTP.

When a user sends mail from my local lan to the SME server and the user does not exist , it should forward to the ISP server for the user to pop from external.
E.G user1@mydomain send to user2@mydomain. User2 is not a user on SME server but has same domain name.
User1 get mail from SME server ( the SME server gets it from ISP) , and user2 get mail dirct from ISP. They are in different locations.

Is this possible to setup without the "unknown user" message ?
I really would apreciate help.
Thanks
Koegies

[gzartman]

Is this possible to setup without the "unknown user" message ?
I really would apreciate help.
Thanks
Koegies

My guess is that you are going to have to do some serious monkey wrenching to make this work, if at all.  SME wasn't really designed to work like this

If it were me, this is what I'd do:  I'd create all of the users on the primary SME box, then forward the branch office users to the mail servers at the branch offices for delivary.  To help simplify things, you could setup conic domains for each of the branch offices or something (e.g., remoteuser1@primarydomain.com would forward to remoteuser1@branch1.primarydomain.com)

Greg  

Greg Zartman

[koegies]

Thanks for the reply !!

We had it running like that for a while but it just is a mess to support it .( the users really get confused)
and the ISP got to do some DNS changes.

We have this situation with quite a number of custmers
surely big corporates have a way of doing it .
I know in sendmail there is something like luser , maybe someone knows if qmail ins SME has got  similar function ?

thanks , cheers.

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