Andy, The purpose of Domain Forwarding is to forward outgoing mail for a specific domain. Our decision to add the feature was for a specific scenario where a customer wanted to forward email to a fax service. The email would be sent to a domain in the format of phonenumber.domain.com. They set up a domain forwarding of *.domain.com to an IP Address of a fax service. When the email was received by the fax service, the phone number was extracted from the destination domain name and used to forward the message to the fax machine.
So, that's how it's used in one scenario. The important point to remember is that this is only for outgoing mail. It is only used on remote delivery of mail. If the mail is destined for local delivery, Domain Forwarding is ignored. Hope this helps and answers your questions. I'll see if we can get the documentation to be a little more clear on this. Tom Lewis Ipswitch, Inc. Principal Developer - Messaging Products 706-312-3573 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Schmidt Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 2:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [IMail Forum] Anyone got Domain Forwarding to Work? Hi, For v10, IPswitch announced "domain forwarding" (of course, this was always an option, as long as you were willing to manipulate the HOSTS file and add IP addresses to the access lists). I can't figure out what this new feature is supposed to do/do differently. The manual doesn't contain anything useful, other than the typical waste of time created by technical writers, like: "Use the Domain Forwarding Add page to add a domain name that you want forwarded to another IP Address." Gee - you think? Anyway, I added a domain to the domain forwarding list, with the IP address of the mail server that handles that domain. It created the binary file. If the domain is not set up in Imail as a host or alias, then inbound email is rejected. So that's ONE possible way how forwarding might have worked, but does not. Next, I did create the domain locally and set up a sample mailbox. Now the email was accepted, but it was "ldelivered" to my Imail mailbox, NOT forwarded to the specified IP address. So WHAT has to be in place where so that domain forwarding actually will do anything useful? The true function of this feature and its prerequisites have to be explained in the manual - don't bother just stating the obvious. Technical writers are supposed to question developers until THEY understand so that they can document a new feature for paying customers. "Use <add domain> to add a domain" (I'm paraphrasing) is not documentation, it's incompetence. Best Regards, Andy Schmidt To Unsubscribe: http://imailserver.com/support/discussion_list/ List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://imailserver.com/support/kb.html To Unsubscribe: http://imailserver.com/support/discussion_list/ List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://imailserver.com/support/kb.html
