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Begin forwarded message: > From: Dominic Benson <[email protected]> > Date: 10 March 2014 09:51:59 GMT > To: Mike Pearce <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [exim] Split Delivery > > >> On 9 Mar 2014, at 17:13, Mike Pearce <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I'm attempting to set something up but I don't have very much experience >> with Exim so I was hoping someone could help me. >> >> Basically I have my domain setup at Zoho.com (Business Email) and have staff >> email addresses being served there. I want to use our server as a mail >> server for our domain as well for departmental email and such. >> >> Zoho provides the option for Split Delivery which I can point to my server >> and then when someone sends an email to my domain that doesn't exist at >> Zoho, their server will automatically reroute it to the destination of >> choice, being my server. >> >> When I try to send an email from my server to a staff email over at Zoho, it >> returns saying unknown user and this is because Exim see's the domain >> locally and attempts to deliver it locally whereas it needs to deliver it >> remotely either by checking the MX entries or via another method. > > Your best bet is probably a manualroute router before local delivery, > checking against a list of e-mail addresses handled by Zoho. Ideally you want > to auto-generate that list periodically (or alternatively do a live directory > lookup if that is supported by them). > > The risk in treating Zoho as a fallback to local delivery is that, unless you > are careful with your ACLs to catch them, messages addressed to nonexistent > accounts could just keep going backwards and forwards. > > > Dom -- ## List details at https://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/
