Topic: local vs 'out and back' emails

[billturnbull]

Prob a simple fix but being a relative noob I dont know how to do it...

I have an sme server with the local domain:    domainexample.local
and the customer has a real domain: domainexample.com.au

When they send an internal email, it obviously goes out to the web and back in. This is fine though the 15 minute fetchmail interval isnt helping...
(using fetchmail to POP3 retreive emails)

Is there a way to route the emails straight to the user, rather than out and back in...

TIA
Bill

[jameswilson]

have you delegated to another mail server or is sme hosting the email?

[billturnbull]

no, it send mail itself, but fetches incoming mail from their hosted domain using fetchmail

i wondered if i should just change the local domain to exampledomain.com.au

sme is in standalone server mode

[mmccarn]

If *all* of the email mailboxes are on the SME server, just add the real domain name in server-manager :: Domains (http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Documentation:Administration_Manual:Chapter13#Domains)

If your email is split - with some mailboxes on the SME server and some mailboxes elsewhere, you can still just create a new local domain, but you will have some more hoops to jump through to get the email from local users into the remote / non-SME mailboxes.

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(This assumes that your actual email addresses match the SME username or one of the standard pseudonyms that SME creates automatically)
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[billturnbull]

Thanks!!

All the incoming email addresses were for for the domain exampledomain.com.au so I added that domain.

However the external email addresses were firstnamesurnameinitial@exampledomain.com.au    eg johns@exampledomain
and the users on the server were just firstname... So I simply added a pseudonym for johns etc and it works great!

Thanks again for your help! Come over to Oz I'll buy you a beer!