Robert Slater wrote: > > Now set up your mail clients incoming and outgoing mail server to be > > mail.austethical.com.au > > Now your mail appears to come from the correct place. Internal and External > > mail work. > > As your Domain name is hosted by someone else you having the same domain > > makes no difference to the Internet as it will not resolve to you.
Les Mikesell wrote: >This configuration is OK as long as there are no other hosts within your >real internet-visible domain. If there are, since the SME server becomes >configured as the primary DNS server for the domain, your local network >won't find any of the other hosts unless you manually add their addresses. > >If your server is on-line most of the time you can probably let it receive >the mail directly just as reliably as the ISP does and avoid this issue as >well as having to maintain user information in two places. The ISP should be substantially more reliable. A twist on what you are suggesting Les is to have the ISP be the secondary MX and set up the MTA at the ISP relay for austethical.com.au. Set the SME 5 server at the office to be the primary MX. If the primary goes down for whatever reason, network problems, hardware failures, software upgrades or problems, mail for austethical.com.au would not be bounced because it would end up at the ISP's mail server. The secondary at the ISP would accumulate the mail and keep trying to relay it to the primary. When the primary comes up, the secondary will relay all the mail that has accumulated to the primary and the users will not lose any mail. Regards, Clifford Ilkay Dinamis Corporation 3266 Yonge Street, Suite 1419 Toronto, Ontario Canada M4N 3P6 Voice/Fax: 416-410-3326 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
