Topic: SME and Exchange server

[charlien]

My company used SME server for about 10 years and as the person responsible for it am really comfortable with it. We put in a MS SBS2008 and started using exchange (not my choice) and I moved our websites over to a Ubuntu server. I'd really like to move our websites back to our SME server. There are a couple Web forms that need to email users on the exchange server. If the domain names are the same, how can I get the mail server in the SME server to send mail over to the exchange server? Is that the function of the "delegate server" in the control panel?

[cactus]

Is that the function of the "delegate server" in the control panel?

I believe so.

[Brave Dave]

Delegate Server - all that (I think you have to do that by command line) ... but ...

You have two identical domains so that won't work, how can you send email from one mail server to next if some accounts for the domain exist on one and others on other - the who email system relies on unique domains.

One has to be different

What I did here was have some private domain on my SBS - because it has to have one and be king of it's tree - I used sbs.local - don't ask me how to do that on 2008, but it has to be done at setup, so if you are already setup I don't know of any way to change things. SBS 2008 is also a empire in itself - very difficult to control.

But once you have sbs.local setup, you can give each user their correct email address - e.g. david@validdomain.com, set this to be their default address and set your sme to be the exchanges smart host.

So SME is now handling all email for validdomain.com, and set SME to delegate mail for invaliddomain.com to the internal SBS : sbs.local, http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Documentation:FAQ#Deliver_email_for_one_domain_to_an_internal_mail_server

then just forward from SME : david@validdomain.com to david@sbs.local

[mmccarn]

Here is the wiki section on configuring an "internal" mail server:
http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Internal_Mail_Servers

If you configure an "internal" server for a domain that your SME would otherwise claim, email will flow correctly - but only to email accounts on the internal mail server.

That is, if you have "joe@...", "mary@..." and "lars@..." defined as users on your SME, and "joe@...", "lars@..." and "henry@..." defined on the SBS, your SME will reject email addressed to "mary@...", but will accept email addressed to "henry@...". 

This is done using "check_smtp_forward" - read more at http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Default_Plugin_Configuration (you'll need to scroll down).

[paradigm]

O.k now I'm confused :

Lets say you have 2 servers one exchange and one sme server ,sme is a domain controller   

and file server and the exchange server handles mail duty , if in smeserver mail is delegated

to the exchange server, wont internal mails (like backup report with dar,yum updates,quota)

be sent automatically to the right mail account in the exchange server ?

[janet]

paradigm

Read this post/thread from one of the sme masters, Gordon Rowell

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,35532.msg155693.html#msg155693