Topic: [ANSWERED] Can my SME server "share" email respons

[Elliott]

I'm wondering if some combination of email duties could be split with my SME server. In particular I'm wondering if I use the Delegate Mail Server option on the e-mail delivery settings page and point it to my already existing corporate mail server and then point my MX record to the SME server if the benefit of virus checking and marking suspected spam will be passed along.

Can anyone comment on this possibility?

Thanks.

[Franco]

Why not?
But why?!
SME is better than your Corporate email  
and there's some really cool stuff you can with it!

[Elliott]

Well there are a few reasons the main one being that I'm afraid that having the firewall also act as the mail server that everyone in the office is hitting every 3-5 minutes might put a strain on the box that I currently have allocated to the duty of firewall.

Also, I'm already hosting email for a small virtual domain on the firewall and I'm not clear on how to handle same names in different domains (i.e. joe@primary.com and joe@virtual.net.

So you're saying that using the Delegate option would allow the email for the delgated domain to pass through virus checking and spam labeling prior to being passed along to the corp. server? If so, that's spectacular but how will I know for sure that it's happening? Maybe I could email the EICAR test through it or something?

[raem]

Elliott

> I'm not clear on how to handle same names in different domains

Use pseudonyms, see
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=33864.0


You can specify for which domain(s) you want to Delegate mail to another server, using

db domains setprop test.com MailServer 192.168.3.20
where test.com is the virtual domain in question and MailServer is the IP address of the SMTP host.
signal-event email-update
This will send all mail for test.com to SMTP host at 192.168.3.20 but will deliver all the rest locally.

See this thread also

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=30953.0