RE: [IMail Forum] Forwarding mail to client servers

[John Tolmachoff]

Title: Forwarding mail to client servers

A local domain is a local domain is a local domain is a local domain.   If the domain exists on Imail, it will always deliver it there.   What you could do is use the nobody alias into say a [EMAIL PROTECTED], then there mail server can pop into that account, retrieve mail and then distribute.   John Tolmachoff MCSE, CSSA IT Manager, Network Engineer RelianceSoft, Inc. Fullerton, CA  92835 www.reliancesoft.com   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Ladiges Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 11:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IMail Forum] Forwarding mail to client servers   I am fairly new to Imail so let me know if I am missing something obvious here, let me know. We are running a small web hosting operation, and we have a few clients that have external servers (Exchange,etc) and prefer to use those over our Imail server. Our hosting software automatically sets up an Imail account for the domain (and the account is used to send email from the clients website). This works fine for them when we set them up with pointing the MX record for the their domain to their external server, but we run into problems with other customers sending mail to them.  Imail delivers to local accounts before checking the DNS entries that show the email should be deliver externally.Since the email addresses the clients send to exist externally and not locally, they get frequent bounces due to the accounts not found by Imail. Is there a way we can use Imail to send mail from a domain, but not deliver to that domain? I have tried setting up host file entries, hoping that those would be seen before the DNS entries, but I didn't see a change from this. Any ideas on this would be appreciated. David Ladiges Developer - Mindfly, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]