Hi All: I'm very new to SIMS and mail management, so I've got some questions that I'm sure have easy solutions, but the answers to which have eluded me. Sorry for the length of this post, but I'm not sure of all the proper terminology, and I want to be as clear as I can.
I'm trying to add a SIMS mail server to supplement an offsite hosted mail account. The offsite account has a limited number of accounts, and the office I'm working with (a non-profit group with little cash to spare) doesn't want to pay to add more, so I'm hoping SIMS can fill in the gap. The original plan is this; tell me if it makes sense or if we're crazy for thinking this might work. We keep the offsite host (we pay for web hosting anyway and get x number of mail accounts with the package, so no reason to dump it altogether) and use that for all incoming & outgoing mail, but use a catchall account there to redirect mail addressed to users not specified on the offsite host to the SIMS server. Most of the real mail accounts for the domain would reside on the SIMS server... only those users who need to have access to their mail outside the LAN would have their accounts on the offsite host. All outgoing mail would go through the offsite host, which (I think) would eliminate some hassles with spammers trying to hijack SMTP services. As things stand right now, mail.ourdomain.org points to the offsite host, and the catchall account is forwarding mail for testing purposes to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (which is our public IP.) I found that the domain on the SIMS server needed to be [12.34.56.78] or it would reject anything forwarded by the catchall account, so that's what I've set in the General prefs for SIMS for now. Mail for any recipient not specified on the offsite host is being received in the <incoming> account on SIMS, but I can't get any farther than that. I've got several dummy accounts set up, and have followed the manual as best I could to get the router rules set up, but everything still ends up in the <incoming> account instead of being divvied up to the other accounts. To get this to work - if it will work - what should my router look like? Thanks for any help you can offer! -- Dave Thornton ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
