Hi!

All

I m in a situation which needs a little more discussion with u people. I have my company's domain (netradiant.com) registered with ISP. My ISP allows upto maximum 5 user E-mail ids to be registered with them . However I have 30 users in my company and each of them want their own unique E-mail ids. My mail server is Sendmail running on Red Hat Linux. I can create 30 users here in my server, but how do these accounts correspond to the 5 user accounts that my ISP allows? I mean to say that, is there any way how these 5 accounts can send and recieve mail for my 30 users without making them public.
And also I don't wanna pay for more than 5 user accounts to be registered with my ISP. And yeah though inexperienced in this regard, but heard that this is the problem that 99% of the big companies face today and they have the solution to this also and thats how they are coping. I hope u guys can understand the problem I'm in..... n so looking forward for some help from u all.

Hoping to hear from u all soon.....

not sure if i'm missing the point here, but why do you need external mail addresses with your ISP? you're already running your own mail server aren't you? you should be able to set your internal mail server as the mail server for the domain as a whole and have 30,000 addresses if you wanted..

We were just faced with the same problem in the past days, and choosed the same solution that acid_kewpie mentioned here.
If you have sendmail, you have your own mail server and you can have as many mailboxes as you want.
However, you have to ensure that your mail server is up all the time. You should also consult your ISP what happens with your mails when your server is temporarily out of service. (Our ISP undertook to spool them until we are up)

I m totally confused..... will u please explain what do u mean by "spooling exactly. Any other suggestion from anybody?????

It means while we are down our mails are not lost but are kept in a mail queue at our ISP.
Once we are up, these mails are automatically received by our mailserver.
Our ISP undertook to keep mails in the queue for up to a week if needed.

Hi..


Solution1 :

Domain registerd with ISP and Having MX and mail store and No dedicated connectivity.

Ask ISP to route all the mails to one account. So that u can download and distribute to local mail account using fetchmail+ MTA.


Solution 2 :

ISP registered the domain and Having MX No dedicated connectivity.

Ask ISP to Spool the mails. Using ETRN u can fetch and distruibute the mail to local accounts

Solution 3:
ISP registered the domain and i am having dedicated connectivity.

Ask the ISP to add MX entry for the domain and create mail boxex locally for the domain.


Sidddiqu.T