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Set up Additional Inbound Servers
Email Protection Administrator Guide
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November 2012
Any server addresses designated here must be valid and available to connection from
Email Protection. After the
Save Changes
button is clicked, the Email Protection
immediately routes email to the active servers.
1
Click
Email Protection
|
Setup
.
2
From the
domain
drop-down menu, select the domain whose SMTP server you want
to add.
3
Click
Add New Host
.
A new set of fields appears for the server
4
In the
SMTP Host Address
field, type the fully qualified DNS or IP address of the
server host being configured. CIDR notation is not allowed.
If you do not have a registered and valid DNS name for your email servers, you
must
enter the IP addresses of each server.
5
In the
Port
field, type the port on the server to which the Email Protection will
connect. The default value is
25
.
6
In the
Preference
field, type the number indicating order of connection preference
between multiple servers. Email Protection attempts to connect first to the server with
the lowest preference number. If that server is not available (either down or too busy),
Email Protection tries the server with the next lowest preference number, and so on. If
multiple servers have the same preference number, Email Protection will randomly
route the email delivery between them.
7
Click the
Active
checkbox to allow the server is immediately start accepting email
traffic.
Caution:
If all servers are set to inactive, all emails received for this domain will
be tempfailed.
8
Click
Save
.
Delete an Inbound Server
To delete an inbound server, perform the following steps:
1
Access the appropriate domain on the Inbound Server Setup window
2
Click the
Delete
checkbox next to the server you want to delete.
3
Click
Save
.