SMTP Domain Forwarding
How to get hereDomain Forwarding will redirect all outgoing e-mail sent to a specific domain name to another IP Address. The Domain Forwarding page maintains all domain names that are to be forwarded in a binary file called "domfwd.dfw" which is located under the "..\IMail" folder.
Note: Domain Forwarding ignores e-mail sent for local delivery.
- Domain Name. This column lists domains to be forwarded
- IP Address. This column lists the IP address to forward to.
Add. Click the button to add a Domain Name to be forwarded.
Delete. Click this button to delete Domain Name
Example 1:
"domain.com" is setup to be forwarded to "192.168.1.1". All e-mail going to "domain.com" will be redirected to its corresponding user with the same domain name but on "192.168.1.1". So, an e-mail addressed to: dude@domain.com would be re-routed to dude@domain.com at 192.168.1.1.
Domain Name |
IP Address |
domain.com |
192.168.1.1 |
Example 2:
Administrator would like to forward e-mail to a faxing service. Domain Forwarding can be set where the domain name is in the format of "phonenumber.domain.com" and the IP Address is the Faxing Service. E-mail received by the faxing service, extracts the phone number and uses it for the fax machine. Using a wild card to capture the phone number, Domain Forwarding would be as follows:
Domain Name |
IP Address |
*.domain.name |
192.168.2.2 |
Important: Wild card will only work at the beginning of the domain name.
Wild Card Examples:
*.domain.com *wolf.domain.com |
Valid usages of wildcard |
wolf.*.com wolf*.com were*wolf.com |
Invalid usages of wildcard |
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