How I would really like to setup email

[Bushtel]

Hi

Got a Lan x 3
Running Currect version of wingate
One email addy
Have got email fuctioning from clients direct to ISP mail server through wingate - but i would really like for wingate to hold email messages so everyone on Lan gets them - I guess like a postiffice.
Is This possible? Is there a description somewhere where to do this ?

Many Thx

[Nev]

Hi

Got a Lan x 3
Running Currect version of wingate
One email addy
Have got email fuctioning from clients direct to ISP mail server through wingate - but i would really like for wingate to hold email messages so everyone on Lan gets them - I guess like a postiffice.
Is This possible? Is there a description somewhere where to do this ?

Many Thx

Now I haven't done this but from the email tab > Domains > Addresses > 'Add all local mailboxes' could be the answer.

Report back I'd be interested!

Nev.

[adrien]

Yep, this is a common scenario for WinGate mail.

You simply define a local domain, which you will use internally. It helps if you want to receive mail from the internet for this domain, that you use a registered domain name, and if you aren't connected to the net all the time, there are mail hosting and forwarding services that will accept mail for you when you aren't on line, and you can connect and download it when you are online.

Then for intra-company mail, you just set up mailboxes (user accounts in WinGate, enabled for mail), and you can then retrieve your local mail from WinGate's POP3 server.

Adrien

[Bushtel]

I did figure that that was the case.

I cant get my head around where in wingate i specify the name of the mail server of my isp - /account name/password

So in Email section I add a domain (name of isp mail server?) or is it Just a local name - Then create accounts inside wingate ? again I could not figure where I tell it Isp Mail Server/Isp Email Acc/Password/

Am i not seeing the forrest for the trees?

[adrien]

To get WinGate to download mail from your ISP POP3 account, you need WinGate 6.0 (any beta), and you add a POP3 collection item.

This then allows you to set up the ISP server for collecting mail, the account name and password, and what to do with the mail you download.

You will first need to create a local domain though. Probably this will be the same domain name as the mail you receive at your ISP - it depends on how your mail is set up at your ISP.

For example a common scenario is: your ISP hosts an entire mail domain for you e.g. yourdomain.com. All mail for that domain goes into a POP3 account at your ISP.

In this scenario, you would set up a local domain called "yourdomain.com", and specify that it is hosted locally. Then any mail for anyone@yourdomain.com that WinGate gets its hands on (either by receiving from an email client on your LAN, or by downloading from your ISP with POP3 collection) will be delivered into your local mailboxes.

Then for your POP3 collection, when you specify how to deliver mail that is retrieved, you would tell it to deliver to any matching local domain.

The POP3 client in WinGate will then download the mail, look up the destination addresses (to: and CC: fields), and look up the domains associated with those addresses. If they match a local domain (which they will if you set one up), then that is where the mail will be delivered.

Adrien

[Bushtel]

So has to be beta version ?
5.2.3 dosent support? and if i dload the beta version will it install over the top of what ive got or do i need to reset up?

Ps
Many thx adien

[adrien]

If you want built-in POP3 collection, that was only introduced in WinGate 6.0. The latest version of this available is beta 3, so yes it is a beta version in that sense .

Otherwise there are standalone POP3 collection programs you can use which will download the mail, sort it, and forward it to your WinGate 5.2.3 mail server.

If you install WinGate 6.0 over WinGate 5.x, you will retain most settings. I say most, the only thing that we change is service bindings, you would need to revalidate the new binding policies. It is fairly straight-forward and intuitive (we hope).

Adrien