Main domain and sub domain

LayLow · January 1, 2019, 2:26pm

Hi,

I’m trying the follwoing

External mail server and website (I have no control) example.com

NS Server with Nextcloud nextcloud.example.com

When I create users on the NS server, they automatically get a user@nextcloud.example.com email address. And obviously Nextcloud with the ldap connector picks up on the NS ldap tree for the nextcloud.example.com domain.

I would like to have user accounts on the NS server BUT have their email address as user@example.com and not for the subdomain.

What would be the best way to achieve this pls?

TIA

mrmarkuz · January 3, 2019, 12:34am

You may use LAM or phpldapadmin in kamikaze mode or ldapmodify on command line to change the mail address of the users in LDAP.

LayLow · January 3, 2019, 10:26am

Thanks, I did that already, I was wondering if there was a more ‘elegant’ way.

stephdl · January 4, 2019, 2:06pm

I probably missed something, but I did not understood what you did, sorry

IIUC you created a property DomainName equivalent to nextcloud.example.com but why to just not create a property SystemName equal to nextcloud and a DomainName equal to example.com

like this you will have a Fully qualified domain name nextcloud.example.com but your users will be user@example.com.

in the dns record you will set a A record to nextcloud.example.com

LayLow · January 4, 2019, 2:30pm

Thanks @stephdl, let me give that a try in a short while.

LayLow · January 4, 2019, 2:49pm

@stephdl, under what conditions is the option ‘relay to another server’ under email grayed out and cannot be selected please?

stephdl · January 4, 2019, 2:55pm

AFAIK it is for the first domain created in the server, this one cannot be relayed to another server

LayLow · January 4, 2019, 2:57pm

Hmmm,

So how can I have mail relayed to the example.com mail server that I can not control?

stephdl · January 4, 2019, 2:59pm

do you run a webmail or a mail service on this server, not sure you need it.

LayLow · January 4, 2019, 3:02pm

Indeed, I do NOT need a real mailserver on this server, it is only Nextcloud. Nextcloud sends out messages and I can set a SMTP server. Does that require an account on the ‘external’ example.com mail server. Sorry for nOOb actions…

stephdl · January 4, 2019, 3:13pm

Indeed, even if you set a smarthost, this smarthost is not used because the domain is local