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I'm hoping someone can explain this behavior with Internet Addresses.

I have a Scalix server (mailhost.domain.com) running temporarily alongside our main mail server (mx.domain.com), and I'm gradually moving users to the Scalix server. In order to allow the systems to co-exist, I forward mail for migrated users from the old server, but since mx.domain.com believes itself to be authoritative for the domain, I need to reference a sub-domain: mailhost.domain.com. (The Scalix server will eventually be authoritative for the domain.)

For example, Jim Bob has an account on the old server as jbob@domain.com, and an account on the Scalix server as jbob@domain.com.

Here's where the odd behavior comes in. If I add another sub-domain Internet Address for the user on Scalix like so: jbob@mailhost.domain.com, Scalix rejects mail (no known user) for that Internet Address, because - I'm assuming - jbob@mailhost.domain.com somehow collides with jbob@domain.com. However, if I use an Internet Address with a different username (example: jbo@mailhost.domain.com or jbob1@mailhost.domain.com), Scalix will accept mail for that Internet Address.

Is that by design?

--Aaron

(My apologies if this has been answered elsewhere--I couldn't locate it.)

Take a look at the 3rd post in http://www.scalix.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=1181 and see if that answers your question.

Cheers

Dave

ScalixSupport wrote:Take a look at the 3rd post in http://www.scalix.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=1181 and see if that answers your question.

Thanks for the quick reply. I think that post was referring to something slightly different, but all the same, I just created a test user to try and duplicate what I had run into, and I couldn't duplicate it.

If I'm able to duplicate it at a future date, I'll let you know.

Thanks again,
Aaron