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psmart
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Domain name settings

Post by psmart »

I'm trying to configure ME for handle email for mydomain.com
ME will operate at the public IP defined by hq.mydomain.com
mydomain.com has an MX record which specifies hq.mydomain.com
mydomain.com has an SPF record that includes hq.mydomain.com

Under SMTP properties I entered:
Local domain name: mydomain.com {our regular domain name}
Default mail domain name: hq.mydomain.com {ID to be used in SMTP HELO}

But diagnostics reports:

Default SMTP Host Name hq.mydomain.com By default, this server will identify as hq.mydomain.com for inbound and outbound SMTP conversations. Pass

Default SPF Domain hq.mydomain.comt No SPF record found. You should consider creating an SPF record for hq.mydomain.com or change the SMTP Default Host name to a domain with an SPF record Warn

Have I entered the domain and hq in the correct places? None of the settings I've tried under SMTP properties have worked.
Last edited by psmart on Thu Mar 15, 2018 5:23 am, edited 1 time in total.

MailEnable-Ian
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Re: Domain name settings

Post by MailEnable-Ian »

Hi,
Under SPF properties I entered:
Local domain name: mydomain.com {our regular domain name}
Default mail domain name: hq.mydomain.com {ID to be used in SMTP HELO}
The host names you have specified in these fields are for the SMTP host name bindings. They are not related to SPF records for your domain. SPF records need to be added in DNS.
Have I entered the domain and hq in the correct places? None of the settings I've tried under SMTP properties have worked.
Do you mean you are unable to send/receive emails or are you referring to the SPF checks in the report.

Here is information about SPF and the records you need to add in your DNS hosting provider/server:

https://www.mailenable.com/kb/content/a ... D=ME020345
http://www.openspf.org/
Regards,

Ian Margarone
MailEnable Support

psmart
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Re: Domain name settings

Post by psmart »

Sorry, I meant to say SMTP properties, not SPF.

I'm referring to the settings discussed in this knowledge-base article:
https://www.mailenable.com/kb/content/a ... D=ME020429

MailEnable-Ian
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Re: Domain name settings

Post by MailEnable-Ian »

Hi,

If the diagnostic report is warning there is no SPF record found for the local domain name you have set under the SMTP properties then you need to set one for the domain in DNS.
Regards,

Ian Margarone
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psmart
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Re: Domain name settings

Post by psmart »

The SPF record is properly defined under mydomain.com. Thats not the issue.

The basic question is how to configure ME to identify the host as hq.mydomain.com in the SMTP exchange, rather than the default machinenane.mydomain.com

For mydomane.com our MX record points to hq.mydomain.com, which resolves to the public IP for the mail server. We also have RDNS configured for hq.mydomain.com All of thus is working perfectly with our previous mail server. The only question is how/where to specify hq.mydomain.com vs mydomain.com

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Re: Domain name settings

Post by MailEnable-Ian »

Hi,

Under the SMTP properties you need to set the "Default mail domain name" as "hq.mydomain.com". This will be used in the SMTP conversation as the SMTP EHLO greeting name.
Regards,

Ian Margarone
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psmart
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Re: Domain name settings

Post by psmart »

Thanks, Ian.
Under the SMTP properties you need to set the "Default mail domain name" as "hq.mydomain.com". This will be used in the SMTP conversation as the SMTP EHLO greeting name.
That's exactly what I need, so my SMTP properties look like this:

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But I still have a problem with the diagnostics:

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I need to set the "Default SPF domain" to hydrocad.net (where the SPF record is located)

kotschyz
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Re: Domain name settings

Post by kotschyz »

Hi,
I think I have exactly the same issue.
Is there any explanation or solution for this warning?
Thank you,
Zoltán

dcol
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Re: Domain name settings

Post by dcol »

I guess there is no answer for this from ME. I have a proper SPF DNS settings and I still get this warning. Not sure what ME wants to find.

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Re: Domain name settings

Post by MailEnable-Ian »

Hi,

Can you provide details of the domain and example screenshot of the diagnostic report warning?
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Ian Margarone
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Re: Domain name settings

Post by dcol »

Thanks for the reply, I have fixed the issue.

mazaamahesh
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Re: Domain name settings

Post by mazaamahesh »

I am having the same issue could you please tell me how did you fix the issue?

dinesh
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Re: Domain name settings

Post by dinesh »

Hello "Mailenable-lan"

we are using G suite for our domain mydomain.com for management users who communicate to outside of our domain.
we are also using my domain.co.in for normal users for internal emails.

we have hosted both domains. but, for data security purposes I want to install on premises email server and want to make one domain mydomain.com for every user.

I've installed mail enable on my LAN server, created mailboxes for testing purpose. I'm able to send/receive emails to mailbox created in mail enable.

I want to configure like normal users can only send/receive mails to mydomain.com email addresses. but managers can send/receive emails to outside of my domain.com also as well to mydomain.com also.

EG there are two users. 123@mydomain.com & abc@mydomain.com.
user with email id 123@mydomain.com can only send emails with @mydomain.com
user with email id abc@mydomain.com can send/receive mails to every email domains like to @mydomain.com and other than that.

can I configure this settings in standard version or I need to buy pro or enterprise version?

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