Using a mail gateway
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 10:25 pm
We have a mail gateway (let's call it hermes) that runs spam virus scanning software. It also runs mailman for mailing lists and has some local mailboxes (it is using sendmail and procmail). However, we want the majority of users to use our scalix server (let's call it Iris).
So we have one toplevel domain (call it foobar.org) which we want all users and mailing lists using for email addresses. E.g. support@foobar.org, andy@foobar.org, etc. The MX record for foobar.org points to the gateway, which takes the mail, scans it, and then it either delivers it or forwards it on via the aliases file (e.g. andy:andy@iris.foobar.org).
So here is my problem:
on the scalix side, if I tell it that it is 'iris.foobar.org' , then all the users show up in the directory as @iris.foobar.org. This isn't ideal since we want their emails to reflect @foobar.org. However, if we tell Scalix that all the users are @foobar.org, then it doesn't seem to forward the messages that aren't destinated for it through the gateway (like those mailing lists and users that live on the mail gateway).
Here is my question:
Is there some way that scalix defaults so all users are @foobar.org for their email address, yet still sends any messages that aren't local scalix users through the mail gateway (hermes) for processing?
Any help would be appreciate it. Let me know if that didn't make any sense. :)
--Sneeper
So we have one toplevel domain (call it foobar.org) which we want all users and mailing lists using for email addresses. E.g. support@foobar.org, andy@foobar.org, etc. The MX record for foobar.org points to the gateway, which takes the mail, scans it, and then it either delivers it or forwards it on via the aliases file (e.g. andy:andy@iris.foobar.org).
So here is my problem:
on the scalix side, if I tell it that it is 'iris.foobar.org' , then all the users show up in the directory as @iris.foobar.org. This isn't ideal since we want their emails to reflect @foobar.org. However, if we tell Scalix that all the users are @foobar.org, then it doesn't seem to forward the messages that aren't destinated for it through the gateway (like those mailing lists and users that live on the mail gateway).
Here is my question:
Is there some way that scalix defaults so all users are @foobar.org for their email address, yet still sends any messages that aren't local scalix users through the mail gateway (hermes) for processing?
Any help would be appreciate it. Let me know if that didn't make any sense. :)
--Sneeper