Dr. Scott S. Jones wrote: >>> What will happen to incoming email, if I temporarily reroute ports 25 and >>> 110, to different machine on my LAN? Where will the email messages go, which >>> normally would go to my primary machine, running exim4? >>> >>> I am trying to run Zimbra on this other machine, and want to know that >>> incoming email messages won't be lost. >>> >>> Help!!!! >> Er. If you route port 25 to Zimbra, and Zimbra accepts a message, then >> your mail will go to Zimbra and that will be it. Any remote servers >> sending mail wont resend the mail to exim later when you point it back. >> > Mike:
Hi Scott. You replied to me directly rather than to the list. It's customary to keep such conversations on list until they become OT. > That then begs the question. Let's say I have email incoming to > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' but what if Zimbra doesn't have an email account set up > with that particular name. Does it just sit in limbo on Zimbra until such an > account it set up? Saved somewhere? I've not had experience with Zimbra directly but it will do one of the following: 1.) Tell the connecting mail server that no such account exists. At which time the sending server will send a bounce back to the sender of the message and you'll never received it 2.) Accept the message, then realise it doesn't have an account, and send a bounce back to the sender it's self. Either way you wont get the mail. Taking this from a different angle, how about if you continue to allow the mail to be delivered to Exim, and then you just get Exim to shunt off a second copy of the message to Zimbra? If that is acceptable, what you want to do is set up a manualroute router in Exim pointing to Zimbra, and mark it as "unseen". Check out the docs on http://www.exim.org/ and let us know if you need further help. Mike -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
