Outbound

Settings for the module that sends email from Hexamail Vault. Hexamail Vault allows for flexible email routing through your system. Outbound emails can be sent to a smarthost or directly using 'MX lookups' to send straight to the mailservers required.

Processing outgoing email with no SmartHost

If you are processing incoming and outgoing email with Hexamail Vault configure the Existing email server with the hostname/IP address and port of your existing email server. Leave the SmartHost host and port settings blank, and Hexamail Vault will use direct MX delivery (direct connections to remote email servers) to deliver emails that are not for one of your configured domains.

Processing outgoing email with a SmartHost

If you are processing incoming and outgoing email with Hexamail Vault configure the Existing email server with the hostname/IP address and port of your existing email server. Configure the SmartHost host and port settings to those provided by your ISP.

Processing outgoing email with your email server as a SmartHost

If you are processing incoming and outgoing email with Hexamail Vault configure the Existing email server with the hostname/IP address and port of your existing email server. Also configure your SmartHost host and port settings to be the same as those for your existing email server.

   Outbound Mail Delivery

SmartHost

Use an external smart host to deliver outbound email

Example interface:

Options:On/Off

Default:true

Smart Host

If you wish to use an external smarthost to deliver email, enter your Smart Host name or IP Address and port (usually 25) into the appropriate boxes. A Smart Host is an email forwarding server, usually provided by your ISP for relay of outgoing emails from your organization.
If your existing email server is setup to use a SmartHost, copy those settings into here, and adjust your existing email server settings to use Hexamail as your Smart Host for outgoing email.
If your existing email server is not setup to use a SmartHost, leave these settings blank, but be sure to set your email server to use Hexamail as the smarthost for delivery of all emails in order that it can process outbound email.

If you leave these settings blank direct MX delivery will be used to deliver emails directly to the appropriate remote email servers on the Internet. In some cases, for example if your ISP IP range is blocked by a DNS based blacklist, this may result in delivery failures. In such cases it is recommended that you use your ISPs smarthost for delivery as every measure is taken by ISPs to prevent their smarthost IP being blocked by such lists, while they are less concerned with their user IP ranges being blocked.

Use the Test Connection button to get the application to test a connection to your smarthost, verifying that the smarthost is accessible to Hexamail and that the configuration is correct.

Example interface:

Example:smtp.exampleisp.com, port 25

Advanced...

Press the Advanced button to open the advanced options.

Advanced Options - Options

Advanced Options - Routing Options

Advanced Options - Sender Options

   Domain Routes

Domain

You can configure Hexamail Vault to deliver inbound emails to different servers for different domains. The Domain Route keeps track of what internal email server to deliver what message. If a domain is not listed here, it will be sent to the server specified in the original mail server. If the port of the target server is other than standard port 25, you cans specify the port by adding a colon after the server name/address and then port number. (ex: myserver:250)

Example interface:

Example:domain2.com:server2,domain3.com:server3,domain4:server4:250