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Legacy Forums => General Discussion (Legacy) => Topic started by: Alexey on July 31, 2002, 11:47:33 AM
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Hello,
My Problem is: I have SME 5.5 with Doman name XXX.COM installed. XXX.COM is hosted by my provider so I use fetchmail to get emails for each user. by sending out emails I get no error, but I have one user outside, with same domain:
aaa@xxx.com when im trying to send him an email i get error message.
How can I send emails (aaa@xxx.com) to my provider?
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Some ISPs use aliasing when hosting other peoples' domains and actually create a different mailbox at their servers to hold those e-mail accounts. Eg. :-
Domain name : abcxyz.com hosted by ISP
Say two e-mail accounts are created at the ISP :- office1@abcxyz.com and office2@abcxyz.com
However, some ISPs actually create mailboxes like abcxyz1@isp.com for office1 and abcxyz2@isp.com for office2 and just create aliases to point office1@abcxyz.com to abcxyz1@isp.com.
If your ISP / domain host is doing this, then you might try the following suggestion.
On your local SME server, create all accounts for your domain abcxyz.com (including the external ones - ie. users at office2). For each account that refers to users at office2, set SME to forward mails to office2@isp.com.
If you only have users outside (not another office), then just configure their e-mail client to pick up mail from the ISP from the corresponding mailbox. If you have another site office, you could configure another SME server there to collect mail from the office2 mailbox and forward all mails for office1 to the office1@isp.com mailbox.
Of course, you could also either get a static IP or setup a Dynamic DNS account and have office2's SME server talk directly to the SME server at the main office (better option !). You could also then have the users collect their mails directly from your main office SME server then and not bother with multiple mailboxes at the ISP end !
Kelvin