Topic: Disable incoming and outgoing email traffic.

[matrixtooling]

My company recently switch from an SME Installation to Google Apps ( Please forgive me).  We want to continue running the SME server but we're running into a few problems.  All of our backup scripts and dumb programs on computers inside of the local network continue to send through the SME server which means the messages land in our local accounts when they need to be sent to our google accounts.  I need to figure out how to disable email for sending and receiving, so that it would hopefully go straight to the Google Apps servers instead.  Does anybody know how to do this?  Thanks so much for your help!

[Franco]

In the Email panel you can configure it to use your ISP or any other provider. Get the details from google, configure it, and even thou internally you'll be using SME, on the outside world you'll use Google's. Imagine one colleague sending an email of 15Megs to another that resides by his/her side. This email would go out and back.
Just a hint

[matrixtooling]

Thanks, but because of the setup with Google and Postini, that's not possible.  I need to disable the email server all together so that mail is automatically looking to the google email  address the MX records point to.  Thanks.

[janet]

matrixtooling

If you disable mail on your SME server, then you will no longer receive server generated admin mails, so probably best to leave the SME server mail system functioning.

One answer (perhaps the most obvious) is to reconfigure your email clients & backup scripts & dumb programs to use Google Apps, rather than using the SME server.
If you have reconfigured your email clients and the problem is only to do with the other scripts etc, this may be caused by still having the smtp proxy enabled on SME server. This will force all local mail traffic to go via the SME server. You can disable this in server manager in the Proxy settings panel.

The other possibility is to Delegate mail to another server, that really depends on how Google Apps is setup, I'm not that familiar with it to know whether it acts as a fully featured mail server or not.
See http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Documentation:FAQ#Internal_Mail_Servers
In server manager you set the Delegate mail servers address, rather than the SMTP servers Address of Internet provider's mail server.

PS It won't hurt if you do a bit more reading of the manual & FAQs and even explore all the settings in server manager, as my answers above are all documented there.