Technical Information

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Do I do outbound mail first and then inbound?
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Do I do outbound mail first and then inbound?

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Refer to <a href="https://community.mimecast.com/docs/DOC-1622-connect-process-setting-up-your-outbound-email" rel="ugc"><u>https://community.mimecast<wbr />.com/docs/<wbr />DOC-1622-c<wbr />onnect-pro<wbr />cess-setti<wbr />ng-up-your<wbr />-outbound-<wbr />email</u></a> which is a bit more complex.<br />
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You'll use MimeCast as your mail relay system, where you setup your outgoing SMTP for every user, to flow through MimeCast.<br />
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Refer to the docs above + then to your MimeCast dashboard for the host/user/pass for setting up MimeCast as your relay.<br />
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Short: You'll setup the host/port/user/pass for all outgoing mail.<br />
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If you're using a GUI'ed system like Gmail, use the GUI.<br />
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For CMS sites like WordPress, use an SMTP plugin.<br />
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For site wide MTAs on Linux systems, follow any smart host setup guide for the MTA you're running - Postfix, EXIM, Sendmail, etc...
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Refer to https://community.mimecast.com/docs/DOC-1622-connect-process-setting-up-your-outbound-email [https://community.mimecast.com/docs/DOC-1622-connect-process-setting-up-your-outbound-email] which is a bit more complex.

You'll use MimeCast as your mail relay system, where you setup your outgoing SMTP for every user, to flow through MimeCast.

Refer to the docs above + then to your MimeCast dashboard for the host/user/pass for setting up MimeCast as your relay.

Short: You'll setup the host/port/user/pass for all outgoing mail.

If you're using a GUI'ed system like Gmail, use the GUI.

For CMS sites like WordPress, use an SMTP plugin.

For site wide MTAs on Linux systems, follow any smart host setup guide for the MTA you're running - Postfix, EXIM, Sendmail, etc...

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Note: All this is fairly straight forward, just time consuming.<br />
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Hang in there!
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Note: All this is fairly straight forward, just time consuming.

Hang in there!

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Hi<br />
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Can some one tell me the procedure of cutting over from Message Labs to Mimecast please
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Hi

Can some one tell me the procedure of cutting over from Message Labs to Mimecast please

Message Labs to Mimecast

Within Internet message handling services (MHS), a message transfer agent or mail transfer agent (MTA) or mail relay is software that transfers electronic mail messages from one computer to another using a client–server application architecture. A MTA implements both the client (sending) and server (receiving) portions of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). The terms mail server, mail exchanger, and MX host may also refer to a computer performing the MTA function. The Domain Name System (DNS) associates a mail server to a domain with mail exchanger (MX) resource records containing the domain name of a host providing MTA services.

Email Servers

Various techniques are used to prevent email spam (unsolicited bulk email). No technique is a complete solution to the spam problem, and each has trade-offs between incorrectly rejecting legitimate email (false positives) vs. not rejecting all spam (false negatives) - and the associated costs in time and effort. Anti-spam techniques can be broken into four broad categories: those that require actions by individuals, those that can be automated by email administrators, those that can be automated by email senders and those employed by researchers and law enforcement officials.

AntiSpam

An email client, email reader or more formally mail user agent (MUA) is a computer program used to access and manage a user's email. A web application that provides message management, composition, and reception functions is sometimes also considered an email client, but more commonly referred to as webmail.