Appendix E. Email Hosting Settings in Service Templates

This section explains the email hosting features that you can set up in service templates. These settings act as default values: if permissions are granted, customers will be able to change these settings.

Name

Description

Handling of mail for non-existent mailboxes

Specify the mail bounce settings. When somebody sends an email message to an email address that does not exist under a user's domain, the mail server, by default, accepts mail, processes it, and when it finds out that there is no such a recipient under the domain, it returns the mail back to sender with an error message. You can choose to:

  • Continue returning all such mail back to senders (the Bounce with message option).
  • Forward all such mail to the specified email address (the Forward to address option). This is also referred to as a catch-all address.
  • Forward all such mail to another mail server with the specified IP address using the option Redirect to external mail server with IP address (available only for Windows hosting).
  • Reject such mail without accepting it. If the sender's SMTP client is behaving properly, it will generate a "Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual mailbox table" non-delivery notice (the Reject option).

Webmail

Provide users with access to browser-based Horde or Roundcube webmail.

Spam filter management

Provide users with SpamAssassin spam protection for mailboxes. This functionality is only available on Linux-based service nodes.

Antivirus management

Provide users with an antivirus for mailboxes.