[SOLVED] Question on domains

[charlier]

Hey Everyone,

I have zimbra installed, and I'm working on getting it setup proper. My question comes from the use of domains, and the proper way to implement it.

Here's our setup.

1.) Mail comes and goes to our mail relays
2.) Our relays contain an alias for all users, that send it to our spam hardware

user: user@spamHardware.X.example.com

3.) Our spam hardware does it's thing, and forwards all mail to our linux email server.

user@email.X.example.com

So my questions come in as this.

If our domain is example.com and we want all email to go out and come in as that, what do I do?

Our email comes into the server with an alias of sorts, as user@email.X.example.com. Do I need 2 domains and setup aliases for everyone so they can be user@example.com but have email come in as user@email.X.example.com?

Thanks for any insight.

Charlie

[raj]

you should read this link
Managing Domains - Zimbra :: Wiki

example which will work for you is:

zmprov cd email.X.example.com zimbraDomainType alias
zmprov md email.X.example.com zimbraMailCatchAllAddress @email.X.example.com zimbraMailCatchAllForwardingAddress @example.com

This will forward user@email.X.example.com -> user@example.com


* but the way you are realying email its really unique..not sure why usernames are getting changed and why you should do that at all.

Raj

[charlier]

Yea, I'm not sure why we do that either, this is how it was when I got here. One of these days I'll figure it out.

Thanks for the read, it appears to be what I was looking for.

[charlier]

I should also note, that we relay for couple reasons.

1.) Not all email should be pushed to our spam hardware
2.) Adds additional layer of security for our email server
3.) We are a small company and can get away with it

I do agree there should be a better way.

And as for the email getting changed...

The email comes to the zimbra server as user@email.X.example.com. But the message itself was sent and shows up as example.com. My headache was getting zimbra to accept the mail as the longer fqdn.

[charlier]

Thanks so much, this worked perfectly.

[jones0610]

Hi Raj! I hope you're still around. I have the same problem as the OP but in reverse. Total noob with Zimbra (one day) so not at all comfortable working under the hood yet.

Plan to roll everything over to Zimbra if all goes well but right now we're in evaluation mode. So far so good.

I am forwarding some depreciated e-mail to Zimbra and want Zimbra to send out an auto-reply. This seems to work ok for mail addressed specifically for the test MX FQDN that Zimbra is on. But if mail to user@foo.com (our production domain) is forwarded to user@test.foo.com (the Zimbra server), no auto reply is generated. The mail is correctly delivered to user@test.foo.com though.

It would REALLY help our roll-out if there is a fix for this,

TIA!