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Legacy Forums => General Discussion (Legacy) => Topic started by: Steve Grillo on March 04, 2000, 05:03:42 PM
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Hello All:
I'm getting familiar with e-smith 3.1 on a new isolated machine, which will become our gateway/email/web server as soon as our DSL access is completed in the next 3-4 weeks. Until then, I want to plan and test as much as possible so the switchover is as simple and painless as possible.
Anyway, the question is: How can I have mail lists sent to my email recipients get to them properly? Some of my people get email via these lists, and in our current situation, I get all of them and have to re-direct them to each person - what a pain...
So - can e-smith 3.1 (or 4.x for that matter) solve this? If not automatically, can it let me do it with some manual tweaking?
Thanks in advance from this newbie.
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Steve Grillo wrote:
> Anyway, the question is: How can I have mail lists sent to my
> email recipients get to them properly? Some of my people get
> email via these lists, and in our current situation, I get all
> of them and have to re-direct them to each person - what a
> pain...
Are you using the multi-drop setup? This problem is inherent to all multi-drop configurations, no matter which email software you're using. If your ISP has their mail server configured to put the correct addressee for each message into a field such as X-Delivered-To then you can configure e-smith to look for this field, which will solve the problem. (Normally the true addressee information is discarded and the e-smith software has to guess the addressee information from the "To:" or other field.)
But a better solution is to use the standard configuration (if you have a static IP and dedicated internet connection) or the ETRN configuration (if you have a static IP and dial-on-demand connection).
Best regards,
- Joe
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As far as multi-drop or not, I'm not using ANYTHING yet (not via e-smith anyway).
When I start using e-smith, though, to handle our email, we'll be doing the email totally via e-smith using static IP addresses.
We'll have 6 IP addresses from our DSL provider that I expect we'll use as the web-server, email-server, and the others will be un-used.
So with e-smith handling the email completely, can we solve this problem of the mailing-lists?
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Steve Grillo wrote:
> When I start using e-smith, though, to handle our email, we'll
> be doing the email totally via e-smith using static IP
> addresses.
> ...
> So with e-smith handling the email completely, can we solve
> this problem of the mailing-lists?
In this configuration there will be no problem at all with mailing lists. Any email sent to your domain will be delivered over your dedicated connection directly to your e-smith server and dropped into the right mailbox.
Best regards,
- Joe