No apology required, I was, after all, being rude. IMO, not directly to the OP, but it could be construed as such.

It is a pet peeve of mine when people use meaningless jargon to describe things they clearly don't understand, presumably to give the appearance that they do, to others that don't.

This phenomenon is exacerbated by the proliferation of "user-friendly" systems that remove the user from the actual process so much that there is no way to know how it really works and things just happen by magic, effectively reducing the OP's question to "Can Mercury cast this spell on my mail, like google & exchange can?"

Oops, i think I've done it again.

Maybe I'm just getting old and cranky ... :D

We use Pegasus and Mercury. Higher ups want us to create a hybrid mail system.

Moving some people to office 365. We have been told that it would require Mercury

to support intenal relay domains and a non authorative MX records. Does anyone

know if Mercury supports this or has anyone done something similar in their environment.

Thanks

You really need to give a clearer description of what is required.

That sounds like a collection of buzzwords from someone who uses a wizard to set up their mail system.

There are various methods that can be employed to forward mail to other domains (sub, internal or otherwise) and local DNS can provide different MX records to Mercury than the rest of the world gets (there is no such thing as a "non authoritive" MX record - it either is one, or it isn't).

If you can post some examples of how you expect it to work, you might get some useful replies. :)

The question is can mercury be configured for a split delivery, like exchange can or google mail. Company Z with a local mail server is going to have a group of people moved to a cloud based email system-not all. some will stay with mercury, some will be moved to office 365, while keeping the same domain name for all. If a an email comes in for joe@z.com, and he is a mercury user, the mail will be delivered, If an email comes in for greg@z.com and he is not a mercury user, the email will be sent to a secondary mail server. both google mail and exchange server support this hybrid setup. Does anyone know or have experience configuring mercury in a similar fashion.

BTW,found "dilberts" response somewhat insulting to the poster

Have a look at the WSMTPEx addon program by Petr Jacklin and see if it will solve it for you. It's designed to be a mail exporter from Mercury inboxes to another SMTP server. The version in our download section seems a bit outdated, so get it directly from here: http://www.3net.cz/software/softe.htm (Downloads can be slow, have patience!)

/Rolf 

[quote user="GJA"]BTW,found "dilberts" response somewhat insulting to the poster
[/quote]Not my intention.

I was insulting those who told him what they require :)

 [quote]can mercury be configured for a split delivery, like exchange can or

google mail. Company Z with a local mail server is going to have a group

of people moved to a cloud based email system-not all. some will stay

with mercury, some will be moved to office 365, while keeping the same

domain name for all[/quote]^^ This.

The domain name is what determines who handles the mail.

Mail cannot be directed to a specific server by the user part, as MX lookups for smtp delivery only consider the domain part.

The perceived effect can be achieved by behind the scenes jiggery-pokery with subdomains, aliases and forwarding etc. (which is what google/exchange do behind the shiny 'click here' button).

The answer is "yes" this can be done with Mercury.

The further answer is that it is a nasty hack and will need a clear understanding of the process you are circumventing.

I do that now and it is quite simple. 

All email for our domain is sent to mercury but I have some users who are on an exchange server and I simply forward the email to them with an alias or forward rule.

the mx record for my domain "apm.ca"  points to my mercury server and then I have an additional mx record for the exchange server   "exchange.apm.ca"

 so everyone on the exchange server actually has 2 email addresses

person@apm.ca and person@exchange.apm.ca   with person@apm.ca being set as the reply address

in mercury I simply create an alias person@apm.ca = person@exchange.apm.ca

or you could forward all email for user person by clicking the forward box.

and then putting in this 

Forward-To : person@exchange.apm.ca
Deliver-Also : N
 

if you need more detailed instructions or help let me know and I will be glad to help you.  Hopefully I explained myself ok.

Jim

There is really not too much you can't do with mercury  [:D]

thanks for the help everyone.

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