Mail Routes

The Mail Routes section will contain a list of all the mail routes currently on the system. Mail routes are used to forward mail for a domain to the machine serving as mail store for that domain.

Each mail route has a domain name and a destination. If this system is relaying mail it will need a mail route for each domain it is relaying mail for.

In our example setup, the machine smtp.corp.guardiandigital.com should relay all mail for the domain corp.guardiandigital.com (Eg: mail to sales@corp.guardiandi-gital.com) to the machine mailbox.corp.guardiandigital.com. So, a mail route should be created in smtp.corp.guardiandigital.com that forwards mail for the domain corp.guardiandigital.com to the machine mailbox.corp.guardiandigital.com.

To add a new mail route click the Define New Mail Route option.

A new window will appear with the fields to create a new rule.

Domain

This is the domain whose mail will be relayed on to the final destination. In the example that is being used throughout this documentation, mail is getting relayed for the domain corp.guardiandigital.com, through the relay server smtp.corp.guardiandigital.com to the mail store mailbox.corp.guardi-andigital.com. So corp.guardiandigital.com is entered in as the domain.

Relay To...

Mail can be stored locally or delivered to a remote machine. If Local Route is selected, mail to the domain will be delivered locally. In this example, mail to admin@tech.guardiandigital.com will be delivered to the local user admin, since tech.guardiandigital.com is defined as a local route.

To relay mail for the domain to a remote machine, select the option Remote Machine and enter the hostname of the remote machine below. This is the server that will be the destination for this domain.

As in the example, we want this set to mailbox.corp.guardiandigital.com, so mail to the domain corp.guardiandigital.com will be sent to the machine mailbox.corp.guardiandigital.com.

To edit or delete a route from the Mail Routes click on the domain. A new window will appear similar to the window above with the option to delete or update the route.