Hi everybody,
I’m just trying to replace an older Kerio system (windows based) by another mail/group server.
Looking for an alternative, I came around Axigen.
So far, so good, but:
I’m used to have the Kerio server fetching the incoming mails, when needed even from several postboxes, via its POP connector and distributing them into the users’ local postboxes, as well as sending mails from these local outboxes via the provider’s external smart host out into the world.
Same construct was common in the “old” on-premise Exchanges (be it using the built-in POP connector or a 3rd party tool like POPcon), is more or less standard for Linux-based fetchmail/postfix utilities like iRedmail etc., and also used in “Hosted Exchange” environments, where the credentials for the “external” email postbox may differ against the credentials within Outlook.
Here with Axigen, I’ve so not yet found anything comparable.
As far as I’ve understood, the Axigen server does communicate directly with the worlwide email infrastructure, therefore must be published in DNS, having a static IP, setting MX, DKIM, DMARC etc., all these needing access to the external DNS-server which I don’t have …
So my only idea would be to use the Axigen “only” as data store, and distributing the mail users’ postbox access data into their Outlook connectors or IMAP/SMTP clients.
But that would be quite ineffective, because on any change on the external server(s), I’d have to distribute these on all client pcs used by the respective users.
My hope here is, that this interpretation is a misundrestanding on my side, and that Axigen does provide “my” features, but hides them somewhere …
Thankful for any help
Michael