Initial setup domain not where email is hosted

[dhayes]

Hello All. First off THANK you devs for this outstanding project. I am setting up a mail-in-a-box server at box.mydomain.com. All goes well with this. I setup the email account myemail@mydomain.com as the admin of the server. However, my intent is to then setup a bunch of subdomains to be hosted on this server and NOT have MY domain hosted on this server. I will be the admin for this server and I would like to have the hostname be box.mydomain.com. However, the issue I have is that myemail@mydomain.com does NOT have it’s email hosted on this server. It is up at google. Therefore, if anyone who is hosted on this server sends an email to myemail@mydomain.com it will end up staying on this mail-in-a-box server and not end up where it should go at google. Also alerts will never make it to me either. In sendmail I would just edit the old local-host-names file and it would solve this issue.

So in summary can I have box.mydomain.com setup as the host with myemail@mydomain.com be the admin BUT have the email from the server properly be routed to google when originating from this server?

Thanks very much for this project.

Dave

[bronson]

In Postfix that’s called a satellite system: where your box forwards all outgoing mail to another box for delivery. You can find guides on how to set it up.

Beware! This is not supported by mail-in-a-box, so your config file edits will probably be blown away whenever you upgrade.

[dhayes]

Thanks very much. I decided that it would be easier to just register a new domain for this function…Works perfect…I want to stay in a supported config.

thx
Dave