Networks

Ask something
Discussion Locked

E-Mail Routing Problem

0 helpful
2 replies

by prutagwera

Closed to new repliesThis discussion is closed. It stays readable, but it takes no new replies.

I have had a single office in one location, but now my office is opening a new branch in another country.
I want to be able to route all the mail including that in the new branch using the same domain name.

I have a cisco router( 3600 series), i have been using sendmail on a linus server as my mail server and my ISP has been managing my DNS.
Can any one give advice now how i can set up the system to manage this.

2 replies

by mshavrov

You can do single e-mail for whole company, for example, user_us@company.com, user_ca@company.com, user_eu@company.com. Your primary mail server will receive all incoming e-mail messages for domain "company.com", and then distribute or forward them as required (for example, transfer through VPN to internal mail servers in another countries).

Another way is in creating sub-domains, like "us.companuy.com", "ca.company.com", "eu.company.com". In this case you may install separate mail servers in each country. You will need to modify DNS records for your domain to configure appropriate MX records for each sub-domain. Plus, your users will have longer e-mail addresses (user@us.company.com, user@ca.company.com, etc.).

If you have more comments or questions, you may e-mail me directly.

Michael Shavrov
MCSE W2K, MCSE+I, CCNP, CCDP, Security+, Sun SCSA

by Former member

Well if yer gonna have one domain, obviously yer gonna have to manage it in one area. Yer just gonna have to add the WAN sites to your 3600 series. On the email side, just add the new users to the existent domain. On the router side, connecting your wan would be beyond the scope of this forum.

Q
(all certs expired - who needs 'em?)
www.bbfree.com/Tech

This discussion is closed to new replies.