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Originally Posted by cuskitco
Wow - I wasn't expecting that
Ok, i'm up to speed with the options, and the choices behind the options
I've scoured SmarterMail (Enterpise 6.1) which comes with our hosting, but cannot find settings that sound like they'll let me do the above
I'm guessing here, other than some DNS records, the main configuration will be done by you guys?!?
If I guess wrong, then i'm keen to do as much config myself
What are the next steps to implement mail backup and mail forwarding (from eUKHost to our Exchange)?
(P.S. Hope the Dell racks are coming along nicely  ) |
Hi Adam,
I've got in touch with Smarter Mail & they've suggested us to add up another server for the smart host option, which is what we aren't thinking of doing as of now.
About having email sent to ourdomain.co.uk (your domain name) be automatically forwarded to your exchange server, it can be simply done by having the MX records for the domain point to your exchange server. Since you would not be using our email services you have us turn off email in our control panel for your domain & remove the mail.ourdomain.co.uk pointing to our mail servers.
I've done some tweaks in your DNS settings & hopefully the emails sent from your site/scheduled-tasks would be sent to your exchange server without any problems.
The only reason why I would see you setting up smart-hosts & forwarders is because you want to have a split domain setup
A split domain on exchange is a domain configured in such a way that you can have some emails on your regular server for example hosted with us. While you can have some emails configured on exchange. In that case we can setup mail forwarders to forward to your exchange orginisation email address. If you see in your exchange box you would see something like
username_org@domainame.com. This is if you are using a orginisation at all.
What I would suggest is just to update your MX records have us disable email in our control panel for you & remove your mail A records in DNS.
If you need to use your mail server to send from a script from your website then you'd need to add our web server IP in relay & white-list's of your exchange & any additional spam filtering software you have added with exchange. Please let us know if you need any further information on this..