Generic Mail Server Integration

Option 1. Email Forwarding Via SMTP

Check if your mail server supports the ability to forward emails via SMTP. If so, you should be able to configure it to forward emails to MailArchiva's SMTP server. When doing this, you might need to change the MailArchiva Server SMTP listening port from 8091 to 25 (you do this in the Listeners tab of Configuration GUI)

Option 2. Email Forwarding Via Postfix

If your mail server is UNIX based then there is a good chance that it uses either the sendmail or postfix as the underlying mail transfer agent (MTA). In this case, you can use either the sendmail or postfix instructions to connect to it.

Option 3. Copy Email

This technique exploits the fact that most mail servers have an inbuilt mechanism to copy emails to a specific email address.

1. On your mail server, configure your DNS to point mailarchiva.company.com to the IP address of your MailArchiva server

You can do this by editing your /etc/hosts file (Unix) or C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (Windows) and adding the following:

192.168.0.22 mailarchiva.company.com mailarchiva

2. Configure your mail server to forward copies of every incoming/outgoing and internal email to the following address:

archive@mailarchiva.company.com

3. Change the MailArchiva Server SMTP listening port from 8091 to 25 (you do this in the Listeners tab of Configuration GUI)

4. Restart the MailArchiva server.

-- TWikiGuest - 04 Jan 2008