Email Routing

You can route email destined for particular email domains either to a specific mail server, or by using DNS MX records. This mechanism allows you to specify where to direct:

• Messages for your domains (incoming mail), received from the Internet.
• Messages for domains other than your own (outgoing mail), forwarded from an internal SMTP Gateway.

You can use a wildcard * when specifying a domain name, for example to specify a mail server for external delivery if you are not using DNS. See these example uses of wildcards.

To add a route for a domain

1. From the System Center Home page, click Mail Settings. The Mail Settings page appears.
2. Select General Settings to display the General Settings page. The Email Routing area contains a table listing current routing information.

3. Click New to create a new route. The Add Email Route dialog is displayed.

4. In the Add Email Route dialog, enter the following information:

   • In Domain, specify the domain for which you want to provide routing information.

   • In Route, select how you want the routing to be applied:

     • Using DNS

       Uses DNS Mail Exchange records to route traffic to the specified domain.

     • To a server

       You can use Server and Port to specify a server's fully qualified host name or IP address.

5. Click Add to add the entry to the routing table.

6. To change the priority of an entry in the routing table, select the entry and click or as required.

7. To edit the route, select an entry from the table and click Edit.

To remove a route for a domain

1. Move the mouse pointer over the Email Routing area, select the item in the list and click Delete. A Confirm Delete dialog box is displayed stating 'Are you sure you want to delete the route?'.

2. Click Yes to remove the entry from the Email Routing table.

See also...

• About Log Levels
• About Mail Settings