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Title: Archiving of email - Server only passing mail to exchange
Post by: ntblade on April 27, 2009, 12:12:26 PM

Hi all,
I have a server accepting email for my domain, scanning for viruses / spam then passing the mail to an exchange server.
Now, I'd really like to create a separate archive of all email flowing through my sme box so I followed the instructions here...
http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Keep_a_copy_of_all_emails
The trouble is that the mails going to "maillog" are also being forwarded to my exchange server.

Is there a way to deliver email locally to that user only?

I though about creating a dummy domain and an email alias but that might not work and also seems a long-winded.

Thanks for reading,
Norrie

Title: Re: Archiving of email - Server only passing mail to exchange
Post by: mmccarn on April 27, 2009, 02:06:45 PM

Try this:
- if you don't already have one, create a secondary domain on your SME that does NOT forward to the Exchange server - something like "smeserver.local"
- set qpsmtpd to bcc to an email address on the secondary (non-exchange) domain using

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config setprop qpsmtpd BccUser maillog@smeserver.local
signal-event email-update
(I don't know if this should work, but if it does it would love your problem)

Title: Re: Archiving of email - Server only passing mail to exchange
Post by: ntblade on April 27, 2009, 04:43:00 PM

Thanks for the reply.
This didn't work.
I created a virtual domain - mailarchive.local and user maillog and set the BccUser to maillog@mailarchive.local but the sme box still attempts to deliver the bcc'd email to the internal server.

It seems that SME can not accept mail for 1 domain while forwarding to another.

Any ideas?

Title: Re: Archiving of email - Server only passing mail to exchange
Post by: mmccarn on April 27, 2009, 06:24:56 PM

Your SME will need to be configured to send ONLY the domain used by the Exchange Server to the Exchange server.

If you have configured email pass-thru using server-manager, or using config set DelegateMailServer internal.exch.host, then *all* email will be sent to the exchange server, for every domain on the SME.

You need to setup forwarding for only the domains handled by the Exchange box using

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db domains setprop test.com MailServer a.b.c.d
signal-event email-update
Then you need to have general email forwarding disabled.

See more at http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Internal_Mail_Servers

Here are the settings on a SME spam filter I manage, for comparison.

* DelegateMailServer is empty
* domain1.local and errors.local allow delivery to mailboxes on the SME server
* All other domains forward email to the internal mail server at 192.168.6.16

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config show DelegateMailServer

DelegateMailServer=


db domains show | egrep 'MailServer|domain'

domain1.local=domain
domain1.org=domain
    MailServer=192.168.6.16
dietandcancerreport.org=domain
    MailServer=192.168.6.16
errors.local=domain
domain3.fr=domain
    MailServer=192.168.6.16
domain2-ca.org=domain
    MailServer=192.168.6.16
domain2-ch.org=domain
    MailServer=192.168.6.16
domain2-cn.org=domain
    MailServer=192.168.6.16
domain2-de.org=domain
    MailServer=192.168.6.16


Title: Re: Archiving of email - Server only passing mail to exchange - Resolved
Post by: ntblade on April 28, 2009, 10:36:49 AM

Sorted!  I didn't realise that general forwarding has to be disabled in the delegate server entry.  This isn't in the Wiki.  I've requested Wiki membership so that I can add a note.

There's no need to create any pseudonyms either.

Thanks. :P

Title: Re: Archiving of email - Server only passing mail to exchange
Post by: shawnbishop on April 29, 2009, 05:30:03 PM

Hi

Try using MailArchiva..open source and how to on the Wiki

Title: Re: Archiving of email - Server only passing mail to exchange
Post by: ntblade on April 29, 2009, 06:42:17 PM

Look very interesting.  Are you using this yourself?
N

Title: Re: Archiving of email - Server only passing mail to exchange
Post by: shawnbishop on April 29, 2009, 06:45:34 PM

I now use it at all my customers who want to archive mail, integrates well with SME and Exchange..( though i tend to use SME more :-) )

Title: Open Xchange
Post by: sti on May 12, 2009, 11:27:08 AM

I found in the you had problems to get Open Xchange running on your SME ?
I installed it on an SME 7.4 and have a menu item in <smemanager>
now I am confused like you were...
How do I start and work with Open Xchange ?

did you find it out ?