Domains tab

The Domains tab, located at Monitoring > Email in the WinGate Management console, allows you to configure how WinGate Mail will handle the reception and delivery of mail, based on the domain name in the destination address of each email.

Any email received by WinGate that you want perform special treatment for, such as delivery to local WinGate mailboxes, relaying mail to another server, applying extra restrictions to an address etc. needs a domain rule created for it on this tab.

A domain rule may be configured for many different purposes. The most common is to receive mail destined for a domain, and deliver it to local mailboxes for your mail users.

However, other purposes are:

If you wish to perform special processing (i.e. override destination, limit message size, copy mail to other addresses etc.) for a particular destination email address. Since mail is domain-centric, no special processing for an email address can happen without a domain rule being configured for the email domain of that address.
You may wish to allow mail for certain destinations to be accepted for delivery by untrusted senders even though that mail is not hosted locally (allow relay).
You may wish to divert all outbound mail destined for a specific domain to a particular location.
You may wish to receive mail for an entire domain and deliver it to a single local WinGate mailbox, or all mail to a single mailbox, except for specific addresses.

Note

Email received by the SMTP server from trusted senders on the LAN

By default WinGate Mail will receive and deliver mail from trusted users on the local LAN without a domain rule being configured to handle delivery for the destination address. This is facilitated by the Trusted Sender (e.g. Local/Outbound from the LAN) > Allow relay option, located on the Receiving tab of the Mail Settings.

To add a new domain routing rule:

Open the WinGate Management console.
Navigate to Monitoring > Email.
In the Tasks menu in the Navigation Panel select New Domain. Alternatively, you can right click on the Domains tab and select New Domain from the context menu. This will open the Edit email domain dialog where you can configure default settings for the new rule you wish to add.

Address handler rules

Once you create a new domain rule, you can add address handler rules which allow you to specify how mail received for a particular address in that domain will be handled. Any address handler you define will override the default settings in the Domain rule.