Hexamail Vault Administration Guide - SMTP Relay - Advanced

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Settings for Non Delivery Report (NDR) messages

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   SMTP / MIME

Custom HELO Remote
You can instruct Hexamail Vault to use a customized HELO line when performing SMTP communications with remote servers for sending email. Typical uses of this is to instruct Hexamail Vault to use your domain name or host name when performing the HELO, e.g. HELO mail.example.com, where mail.example.com is the fully qualified hostname of the server running Hexamail Vault. Use the token <domain> to insert your primary domain automatically: HELO <domain> becomes HELO example.com when example.com is your configured primary domain. Use the token <host> to insert the host name of your server automatically: HELO <host> becomes HELO mailserver when mailserver is your host name. Hence, HELO <host>.<domain> becomes HELO mailserver.example.com. Alternatively use HELO mailserver.example.com directly to ensure the correct fully qualified host name is sent. If you are trying to use Authentication with a Microsoft Exchange Server and get Send Hello first errors, set this to EHLO instead of HELO to resolve the issue. To configure a specific domain use: HELO mydomain.com
Example interface
EHLO <domain>
Custom HELO Local
You can instruct Hexamail Vault to use a customized HELO line when performing SMTP communications with the local server for delivering email. Typical uses of this is to instruct Hexamail Vault to use your domain name or host name when performing the HELO, e.g. HELO mail.example.com, where mail.example.com is the fully qualified hostname of the server running Hexamail Vault. Use the token to insert your primary domain automatically: HELO becomes HELO example.com when example.com is your configured primary domain. Use the token to insert the host name of your server automatically: HELO becomes HELO mailserver when mailserver is your host name. Hence, HELO . becomes HELO mailserver.example.com. Alternatively use HELO mailserver.example.com directly to ensure the correct fully qualified host name is sent. Sometimes when talking to exchange locally you need to use the local machine name alone, e.g. HELO machinename If you are trying to use Authentication with a Microsoft Exchange Server and get Send Hello first errors, set this to EHLO instead of HELO to resolve the issue. To configure a specific domain use: EHLO mydomain.com To use a specific hostname use EHLO myhost.mydomain.com
Example interface
EHLO <host>
Add Received From MIME Header
You can optionally turn off the insertion of received from headers into outgoing emails. Uncheck the control to disable insertion of these headers.
Example interface
On/Off
true

   Network

MaxConnections
You can use a large number of simultaneous connections to provide for large amounts of email traffic being sent. Set this high if there is lots of outgoing mail and your mail server can handle large numbers of connections simultaneously.
Example interface
1 - 64
16
8
DNS Servers
You can optionally specify DNS servers to use for MX Lookups. If you do not specify anything here the default DNS servers configured on the machine on which Hexamail Vault is running will be used, or, if they are not available or configured, the standard root DNS servers are used. NOTE: these are only used if outbound email is being sent through Hexamail Vault and MX lookup delivery is being used. If a smarthost is configured, the Smart host will perform the MX lookup and delivery and no DNS server list is required. If you are experiencing MX Lookup errors, check your DNS settings on the machine or add your DNS server IP addresses to this list to ensure the correct DNS servers are being used.
Example interface
MXFailureRetry
By default if no MX host exists for a domain hexamail will try sending to the domain name as a host inline with the SMTP RFC and retry as per your retry schedule under the Errors settings. If you prefer to immediately fail the email for a recipient if the MX lookup fails for a recipient select Off for this setting.
Example interface
On/Off
On

   Custom NDR

Displayed Name
Enter the display name you wish to use for the NDR (Non delivery report) Sender. ex: Administrator
Example interface
Postmaster
Administrator
Return Sender Address
Enter the email address you wish to use for the NDR Sender. ex: postmaster@domain.com
Example interface
postmaster@domain.com
Subject
Enter the custom Non Delivery subject you would like to use.
Example interface
Failure notice
Message
Enter the custom Non Delivery Message you would like to use.
Example interface
This is the sender program at <domain>. The message with subject: <subject> was not delivered to all recipients: Address: <to> Reason: <reason>
Attach original email to returned email
You can optionally attach the original email to Non delivery reports (NDRs) when they are sent due to delivery failure after the maximum number of retries.
Example interface
On/Off
Off
On