I have an IW server running my websites. One of my websites is a forum. This forum sends email notifications when topics are updated etc. The forum email routes it’s email through IW (don’t know why… but it does - that’s ok) This works well for emails that are sent to address’ outside of our domain. However, if the forum sends an email to someone from ourdomain.com it tries to deliver it locally to the webserver rather than using mx records to point to OUR mail server.
This is what I’ve tried (and it’s still not working)
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Turn off local delivery for the secondary domain where the forum is running and the top domain
Use SMTP routes to point forum.myserver.com:mail.myserver.com
Use SMTP routes to point to forum.myserver.com: (left blank)
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As I’m writing this, could this be something with IW’s DNS server causing amuck?
I finally got it working, I turned off the local delivery for forum.mydomain.com secondary domain and failed to turn off my main mydomain.com local delivery.
I’d like to however, tweak this so I can get forum.mydomain.com to work, to receive admin mail to user@forum.mydomain.com, in addition to using my corporate mail server mx for internal employees.
I thought you wanted all email to goto your mail server and not the hosting server.
Also, your forum mail will most likely be sent using form scripts, which is most likely set to use localhost - change this to your mail server. However, not knowing your forum I could not help, as some contain their smtp settings or dictate how there sent.
If you want to receive email forum.domain.url on host server, but have duplicate email to domain.url, just simply set the local delivery option to on for forum.domain.url and place a copy to domain.url (clearly you need proper email addresses).
The above though, perhaps lends itself to a better setup for both IW servers, but as I do not know your setup or intended use, is hard to gauge but you may want to consider cluster, and then the above is negated.
Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately most of your replies to my posts seem to start with “sorry you’re confusing me” - sorry I’m such a challenge my wife says the same thing.
Let me try to explain another way…
Currently - (now that it’s working)
Joe user at the forum gets a notification on his post, so the forum sends an email to Joe@email.com using IW forum.mydomain.com SMTP server (IW IP Address).
employees at the form also gets a notification on his post, so the forum sends an email to me@mydomain.com using IW forum.mydomain.com SMTP server. In this sceario IW is using mydomain.com MX records and happily sends it to me at mail.mydomain.com.
But let’s say that I want to start receiving bounce messages, admin messages, etc. at support@forum.mydomain.com - should I just simply turn back on local delivery in NW for forum.mydomain.com and it will not interfere with mail to employees at mydomain.com?
I try to be polite, sorry and to receive best advice needs a good understanding of the question
In essence, yes, but to work in full, as expected re bounces, you would be best advised to set the mx record to the IW hosting server and remove your smtp routes for forum.domain.url.
You could just enable local delivery for forum.domain.url and leave all other settings the same, but the only bounces received would be from the localhost mail server, and all external email sent to user@forum.domain.url would use the mx record, but this seems a strange way to do things for me anyway.
The settings for forum.domain.url should not interphere with the settings for mydomain.url in relation to the above in this post.
my wife says the same thing.