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A working catch-all e-mail solution

Offline Mace

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A working catch-all e-mail solution
« on: August 21, 2006, 11:18:32 AM »
I found a way to set up a catch-all in SME Server 7 so I thought I'd share how I did it since it might be useful to someone (there might be a better way, who knows :-?).

First you need to set up dungog's smeserver-userpanel and smeserver-mailsorting contribs for SME Server 7. They can be found here:

http://sme.dungog.net/packages/smeserver/7.0/i386/RPMS.dungog/

Then create a user called 'catch-all' and using the 'E-mail > Change e-mail delivery settings' panel in server-manager, set 'E-mail to unknown users' to the user 'catch-all'.

Now use the 'User Panel Access' panel in server-manager under Security and grant the user 'catch-all' access to 'userpanel-mailsort - Process Mail'.

Now you can log in to https://yourserver/user-manager (notice, https://) with the user catch-all's credentials and use 'Process Mail' to forward the mail to the correct user depending on the domain the email was sent to.

Note:
If you were in server-manager your browser probably has your admin credentials cached so before you can log in to catch-all's user-manager you'll either have to close all browser windows first or use https://catch-all@yourserver/user-manager to get to catch-all's page.

-Sterling

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A working catch-all e-mail solution
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2006, 04:22:57 PM »
Catch-All aka Multidrop works out of the box, why you set up this workaround for a working software
First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.

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A working catch-all e-mail solution
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2006, 10:01:00 PM »
Quote from: "psc"
Catch-All aka Multidrop works out of the box, why you set up this workaround for a working software


See http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=31687.0