Add a new domain to SmarterMail

The following article explains how to create a new domain in SmarterMail your Windows server. This will allow a user to receive email for a domain.

1. Log into your server through Remote Desktop Connection (instructions for connecting to your server through RDC can be found here)
2. Open SmarterMail, typically located at the following URL: http://your_server_ip_address:9998
3. Log into SmarterMail as the account admin user
4. Once logged in, click the New icon

   

5. Fill in the required fields
   • Name (domain name)
   • Domain Administrative Username (the email user used for administrative access for the domain)
   • Domain Administrator Password (the domain user's secure password)
   • Make sure that the IP Address matches that in DNS

     

6. Click Technical at the top of the page.
7. Ensure that the box for Require SMTP Authentication is checked.
8. Check the box for Enable once per day sender autoresponder restriction to prevent multiple automated emails coming from the server.
9. Choose an alternate SMTP port if needed and make sure it is open on your firewall as well. This is typically used if an ISP is blocking port 25 for SMTP

   

10. Click Features at the top of the page
11. Enable any features you would like for the domain (typically turning off Catch-Alls and Mailings Lists is a recommended)

    

12. Click the Limits tab
13. Enable a disk space limit for the domain and configure other limit options here such as number of users and aliases, the maximum message size, recipients per message, etc

    

14. Click Save at the top of the page

The domain and domain administrative user is now created. The client may connect with http://your_server_ip_address:9998 and the username and password that was setup or you may opt to add a host header in IIS (and add the resulting DNS CNAME record) such as mail.yourdomain.com.