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> 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
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