Topic: e-mail rerouting

[John Da Silva]

Hello

I am very new at linux so I hope there is someone out there with a lot of patience.
My problem: Our head office is some 300km away and it has 4 other branches
linked into it each with a 64k Diginet line. We all share a common e-mail server at the head office. The head office mail server is also running redhat linux ver 7.2 (I think). I have successfully installed SME 5.6 at my branch. If I create users on this mail server the mail gets delivered successfully. I want to have this server deliver local e-mail locally and to send any other mail to head office for further processing. How do I setup the SME server to do this? At the moment if the local server does not have a mail box for a user it is giving me a "Failed to deliver" message.
Also can some one point me in the right direction for literature on how to publish a web site onto this SME server.

[JeffC]

Have your users set their return address to machinename.yourdomain.com, where "machinename" is the name of the server you've built at the branch office.

Then create a cname record for that machine in the nameserver that hosts your corporate domain nameservice.

bob@mydomain.com and bob@branch1.mydomain.com become two different email addresses.  Make sure you update your hostnames with the corporate mailserver so that so that mail sent to your corporate office knows where to go.

This is quite common with companies that have multiple mail servers.

-jeff