Morning All,
Once a user has clicked “Send”, is their any way of stopping the mail from being sent to the outside world?
I thought that if I went into the Mail.box and cut the mail from the list it would not be sent. This happened yesterday, but either I was not quick enough or I hit “Ctrl + c” instead or “Ctrl + x”, because the mail was sent out.
If anyone has any idea’s about how this is done or any work arounds that would be great.
Ideally I would like all outgoing mail that is not of a high importance to wait for 5 minutes, somewhere that an administrator can get at it and stop it if need be.
Other than better training for users, I don’t know how to combat this one.
Any help would be great.
Thanks
Ross
Subject: Stopping SMTP Mail from sending
If you have a connection document to the internet for SMTP mail routing you could try setting it to not route at once if there are any messages pending but to route only on a schedule of say 10 mins which means that the average delay before a message goes out would be 5 mins.
I have never tried this so I cannot categorically say it will work but I think it should.
Subject: RE: Stopping SMTP Mail from sending
Actually, that wouldn’t work. An SMTP connection doc is looked at by every router EXCEPT the one that routes out; that one just drops down to port 25 and lets it rip. You can set the schedule to be valid for only five minutes on Tuesday afternoon; it doesn’t matter. The outbound SMTP box doesn’t even see it.
It sounds like this is a one-router installation. If you can justify/handle licensing another domino box, you could set the new box to be the one that routes out, and create a connection doc from the existing box to the new box with your desired delay. This would require setting up the necessary Foreign SMTP Domain doc and SMTP connection doc that Phillip describes in a later posting.
Subject: RE: Stopping SMTP Mail from sending
I don’t seem to have a connection document to the internet for SMTP routing. Email just goes! Via the Mail.box. The main server is directly connected to the router so we don’t have a dedicated SMTP server.Is the only way to do it by having an Domino SMTP server between the main domino server and the internet? Otherwise I really like the connection document pending schedule of 10 minutes.
I really appreciate the help
Ross
Subject: RE: Stopping SMTP Mail from sending
Its kind of the old way of doing things.You should already have a Global domain document.
Set up a SMTP foreign domain document…
Domain type: Foreign SMTP Domain
Internet Domain: .
Domain name: TheInternet
and a connection document to the foreign smtp domain with the 10 minute settings.
More eloquent explanations of how to add these things are available in the Admin Help DB’s but email me if you think I can help.
Phil
Subject: RE: Stopping SMTP Mail from sending
Thanks Philip, I’m going to look into this now. I’m going on the assumption that the Foreign Domain document will be stored on the main server (or does that even matter as it replicates, I think). Also going on the assumption that if documents are held using the 10 minute setting, I’ll be able to remove them or delete them somewhere or somehow? Mail.box?
Thanks again
Subject: RE: Stopping SMTP Mail from sending
Ross, I always have a bookmark for the mail box on the server in my workspace. Don’t forget your server may be set to use more than one mail.box in which case it will be mail1.box and mail2.box etc.