Topic: Forwarding Email to internal server for specific users

[bubbers214]

I'm going to be using SME for Spam filtering and Anti-Virus for an internal Email server and I need to test out the new internal Email server so I only want to forward email processing to the internal server for a few users.  Right now everyone at the company uses the SME mail server, so until we get the internal email server working and tested I need to keep the SME server doing most of the processing except for those few users.  Is this possible?

[shell]

Hi,

You can forward a copy of your test users mail from inside the user details of server-manager - choose Email Delivery to be Both deliver locally and forward.

If you want your new mail server to test the same domain name this won't work.  Most of your options would involve delegating the new server as the mail server.  I would make the new mail server a variant of your domain - ie main domain = mydomain.global; test domain = mydomain.local.  This would work for testing processing of mail on the new server, but wouldn't test the ability of your new mail server to pick up your original mail.  Also if you want to test spam filtering (for example) you may need to disable this first in the original server to get a clear idea.  Maybe if you gave some more details - ie other server, network setup and what facets of the new mail server you are trying to test you might get some fuller ideas.

Delegation of the domain mail can be easily achieved from the server manager - but this would not leave an active copy for the rest of the network.

[bubbers214]

Leaving an active copy for the rest of the network is definitely what I'm looking to be able to do.  The other server is an Exchange server and I am looking to be able to use exchange for the few users that I choose just like they'd be using the SME mail server.  So using a variant of the domain isn't really what I'm looking for. 

[m]

I recently did this. I forward mails of a few users from SME to a Kerio mailserver using the IP as the domain part, e.g. susi.sorglos@192.168.1.2. On the Kerio I setup 192.168.1.2 as a server alias. Allternatiively one could use the FQHN, i.e. susi.sorglos@kerio.mydomain.com. Then the hostname kerio must have a local DNS record on the SME server.

[bubbers214]

I recently did this. I forward mails of a few users from SME to a Kerio mailserver using the IP as the domain part, e.g. susi.sorglos@192.168.1.2. On the Kerio I setup 192.168.1.2 as a server alias. Allternatiively one could use the FQHN, i.e. susi.sorglos@kerio.mydomain.com. Then the hostname kerio must have a local DNS record on the SME server.

Thank you so much, that worked perfectly!  I really appreciate it.