You can tell the CommuniGate Pro Server to store all mail for a mail domain in one Account.
This method is useful if:
- the mail domain belongs to a dial-up client system that does not have a static IP address
and thus cannot receive its mail via SMTP;
- the mail domain has only few POP3 users and you do not want to create a full-featured
CommuniGate Pro domain to serve them.
To create a Unified Domain-Wide Account for the client.com domain, use the following
Router domain record:
- client.com = client.local
or a Router alias record:
- <*@client.com> = *@client.local
All messages to the client.com mail domain will be stored in the client Account in the
CommuniGate Pro Main Domain. The .local suffix explicitly tells the Local
Delivery Module to accept this address and direct it to the client account.
The Local Delivery Module uses the local part of the address to form the X-Real-To:
header fields in the stored messages. These fields will allow the client software to retrieve messages
from the CommuniGate Pro Unified Domain-Wide Account and distribute them locally to the proper users of
that mail domain. See the Local Delivery Module section for more details.
If users of such mail domain do not have their own mail server that retrieves mail from the
Unified Domain-Wide Account, but connect to your CommuniGate Pro Server directly, the
POP module will show each user only the messages directed to that user,
rather than all messages stored in the Unified Domain-Wide Account. See the
POP Module section for more details.
Please note that while the following Router record will also store all mail sent to the
client.com domain in one client account:
<*@client.com> = client
But this Router record discards the information about the original user name (the part before the
@ sign). As a result, no X-Real-To: header fields will be added to the
messages stored in the client account.
You can mix the mapping methods with the Unified Domain-Wide Account method. For example,
if you want messages sent to the jim@client.com address to be stored in the client-jim
account in the Main CommuniGate Pro domain, while directing the rest of the client.com mail to
the Unified Domain-Wide Account client, use the following Router records:
<jim@client.com> = client-jim
<*@client.com> = *@client.local
If you are serving many small mail domains, providing Unified Domain-Wide Accounts
can be a very effective alternative to real CommuniGate Pro domains.
