lets have another try;
say you own domain MYBIGGY.NET and you have it hosted on IP NUMBER 1.1.1.5
dns server on the internet will normally have the following information:
mail - cname - MYBIGGY.NET
www - cname - MYBIGGY.NET
MYBIGGY.NET - A - 1.1.1.5
MX records:
mail - priority 0 (ZERO)
all this is saying that, all requests for the following domain/subdomain names:
mail.MYBIGGY.NET
www.MYBIGGY.NETMYBIGGY.NET
will be redirected to 1.1.1.5.
all this has to be done with the company with whom you have registered your DNS. it is outside Ebox.
Once you have updated your external DNS, browsers will be able to find your website.
likeways, emails address to MYBIGGY.NET will be able to arrive at MYBIGGY.NET as described on your MX records.
in Ebox, you will have to setup the email server to accept emails by
clicking on 'Mail' > 'Virtual Mail Domain' and enter your domain 'MYBIGGY.NET'
this should also create a DNS entry in Ebox.
preparing to accept your emails from the web
click on Mail > General
and tick the following two to allow users to collect their emails securily
TLS for SMTP server
Require authentication
click on 'change'
choose the way you want to publish your email to users IMAP or POP (you can find out more on the web); i suggest IMAP
click on 'change'
configuring mail filter
click on 'Mail Filter'
this will filter your message for Junk/Spam.
click on:
'enabled' (to enable filtering)
'anti-virus enabled'
'anti-spam enabled'
leave the service port with its default value 1024
click 'change'
click on tab 'SMTP filter policy'
choose what you want to allow, deny and bounce - be careful as some users might complain later of not receiving their messages (happened with me)
click 'change' when finished
click on tab 'virtual domain configuration'
click 'add new'
in domain choose your domain name: MYBIGGY.NET
click on
Use virus filtering
Use spam filtering
for spam threshold - leave the default, and later you can change it if much spam passes through to your email users
click on ham and spam accounts (read the description for info)
click on 'change'
configuring mail server to use mail filter
click on Mail, and click on tab 'mail filter options'
on 'filter in use' choose 'Ebox internal mail filter'
click on 'change'
now create some users on your system by clicking 'users' > 'add user'
fill in details and click 'create'
following you have the option of adding an email account for this user under 'Create mail account'
by entering a username '@' MYBIGGY.NET
you can also enter aliases for this account (i always create
nicolas@somewhere.net and
nicHolas@somewhere.net)
create as many accounts as you need.
DNS for internal users
click on DNS
you should find an entry for your domain here - if not create it.
assuming it is correctly there.
click on 'edit' (the little pencil symbol to the right most)
under IP Address - enter the IP for which your Ebox server is connectible from other computer within your internal network (this is NOT your external IP used earlier).
if you are not sure click on 'network' > 'interfaces' and copy the IP Address of your INTERNAL network interface (NOT ticked as external);
click 'change'
then click on 'hostnames edit' (paper and pencil symbol under HOSTNAMES)
in here you should have the same number of entries as you have on your external DNS.
from our earlier example
you should 'add new'
value of hostname is 'www'
value of IP Address is your internal IP Address used earlier
click 'add'
since mail has the same IP Address as www, we create an alias of www.
for www click on alias (pencil and paper symbol under alias)
click on 'add new', and enter value of 'mail'
we now enter the MX record for the domain by
clicking on 'DNS' > for MYBIGGY.NET domail click 'Mail Exchanger Record Edit' (pencil and paper symbol under Mail Exchanger Record)
on HostName select 'owner domail' and 'Mail' (means mail.MYBIGGY.NET)
for preference leave the default
click 'add'
it is ALMOST done.
we now enable the modules:
Mail
Mail Filter
DNS
Users
an their dependencies (i am assuming you have an Ebox configured)
And Save your changes.
you can now connect to your Email server by using mail.MYBIGGY.NET as the email server from the internet and intranet.
Hope this helps.
Nicolas
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