Receiving email from outside source

[GCamp]

I need to be able to receive email that has been forwarded from our ISP. I am able to set up a redirection on the ISP's email server for each user. The problem I have is in determining the email address that would be used from the outside for a user on the Scalix server. Any help would be greately appreciated.

[KevinAnderson]

Why not leave the mail on the ISP server, and pull it off with fetchmail?

Kev.

[GCamp]

I have been using fetchmail with mixed results. The number one problem that I have had on two occasions is bulling down the same email multiple times. I have the cron set to check for new mail every 5 minutes. Last weekend I received the same email 173 times. Once every 5 minutes for the whole weekend.

It just seems to me that if we could forward our email to Scalix and not use fetchmail, life would be easier.

[swordfish]

You can probably set up something like this:

If your main domain is domain.com, configure the scalix server with name scalix.domain.com. Then create all users under scalix to be like userX@scalix.domain.com. Then forward all mail for userX@domain.com to userX@scalix.domain.com. Don't forget to add a forward and reverse DNS entry for scalix.domain.com with the public IP of the scalix server in your domain.com DNS file at the ISP or whoever manages your DNS. That should do the trick but it'll require you to change everyone's mail client to receive mail for userX@scalix.domain.com instead of user@domain.com. For sending out I'm not sure about your setup but I think the easiest will be to send through the scalix server and configure sendmail to masquerade all users as userX@domain.com instead of userX@scalix.domain.com.

Alternatively, setup your scalix server as for domain.com, remove the accounts at the ISP and have the ISP only to queue emails for you in case server is broken or no connectivity.

[GCamp]

Swordfish - Thanks for your reply. What you suggested worked although I thought that I had tried that with negative results once before. I don't know what I could have done wrong the first time. Anyway thank you for your help.