Topic: multi drop / ETRN / SMTP

[rtandon]

Hello,

We want to use SMR server for mails of a few users of a domain. Example: let's say there are 10 users of a domain who are located in one location, where we have deployed SME server. Note that there are other users as well, but they have individual POP accounts. These 10 users share a common POP account and mails for all these 10 users is stored in a single pop Mail a/c.

u1@domain.com , u2@domain.com ... u10@domain.com -> POP1@domain.com

other users:
r1@domain.com, r2@domain.com etc..

Prob is how do we set up SME server so that
a) mails arriving from external world for u1/u2/u3... u10 is fetched and delivered to the local POP boxes
b) mails for u1/u2/u3 ... sent from other local users is delivered immediately
c) mails from lcoal users to r1@domain.com, r2@domain.com ... is forwarded / routed further up the MX server for the domain (MX server may be the internet mail server, not the SME)

We have tried several combos and referred to Wiki but all the above cases are not fulfilled.

(Also note that we have successfully implemented these on Linux running Red Hat / CentOS etc.. using sendmail, aliases, virtual user tables, fetchmail combination) but it does not seem to be as flexible on SME server.

Any Help is appreciated.

[jester]

Hi rtandon,

a) Look at 'pseudonyms' in the Administration Manual. You can have multiple pseudonyms point to one actual account.
b) as far as i understand you correctly and i know, this is standard behavior for SME
c) sorry, don't know the answer to that one.... but maybe as a workaround you could try to set the SMTP server on those user mail client to the other server?!

[rtandon]

Thanks Jester,

Perhaps I did not explain well the situation.

There are two server - One on the internet (hosted services for web / mail) and the other is SME.

Accounts for u1/u2/u3 are set up on internet server in a way that mails addressed to these adresses get collected in a common mail box POP1.

Later, when we switch on the SME server, we want the SME to fetch mail from this single POP and redistribute the same to respective u1/u2/u3 accounts created on SME.

This works (normally). However there are other valid email addressed for this domain too (but not on SME)  for example r1@domain.com, r2@domain.com etc. Mail a/c for these DO exists on remote Internet server.  There are no user accounts for these on SME, as they are out of this office premises. So SME considers these as Unknown users an rejects mail to these. This is the cause of problem

If somehow, I can configure SME in such a way that mail for unknown addresses for this domain (or even predefined addresses of this domain) and all mail for other domains can be relayed to the ISP's SMTP then thins would work.

In sendmail, this used to work as smart relay and user mapping would work via virtualusertable.

On SME, I cant figure out how to achieve this. Any docs, specific to SME's mail routing and it's configuration might help.