Snow Leopard Server Mail QUESTION!

I am running OS X 10.6.2 and I have a question regarding e-mail functionality. Currently we have an Xserve acting as our mail server then we have a microsoft exchange server in line in order to use connectors to route e-mail based on cost and size. Is there anything we can use to route e-mail straight from the Xserve and take the exchange server out of the picture?

After doing some more research I found that what I am looking to do looks like it can be achieved using postfix transport maps. The only issue I am still having is how to setup postfix transport maps to send mail out via 2 different gateways based on size.

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    Hi
    +"Can I set up Snow Leopard Server so that the Outlook 2003 clients will be able to use contacts, calendars and mail etc from the mac (mini) that we would purchase for this?"+
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    http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/iCalServerv10.6.pdf
    Page 12. For Addresses/Contacts consult the Address Book Server Admin Manual for more details:
    http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/AddressBkServerv10.6.pdf
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    This has been an intermitten problem for over a year.  Every once in a while multiple email accounts in the "Workgroup Manager: local" loose their check mark next to "access account".
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  • Os x snow leopard server mail server auto detection

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  • Mail A record Snow Leopard Server

    DNS lookup is reporting that I have No A record for mail.  This is a new server setup on Snow Leopard Server 10.6.8 below is a screen shot from DNS Lookup:
    However if I use dig -t A hkmurray.net from terminal I think things look correct, but please correct me if I'm wrong.
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    hkmurray:~ butch$ dig -t A hkmurray.net
    ; <<>> DiG 9.6-ESV-R4-P3 <<>> -t A hkmurray.net
    ;; global options: +cmd
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    ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 44517
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    ;; QUESTION SECTION:
    ;hkmurray.net.                              IN          A
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    hkmurray.net.                    10800          IN          A          68.169.178.128
    ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
    hkmurray.net.                    10800          IN          NS          NS1.hkmurray.net.
    hkmurray.net.                    10800          IN          NS          NS2.hkmurray.net.
    ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
    NS1.hkmurray.net.          10800          IN          A          68.169.178.128
    NS2.hkmurray.net.          10800          IN          A          68.169.178.128
    ;; Query time: 1 msec
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    ;; WHEN: Mon May 27 09:27:52 2013
    ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 114
    hkmurray:~ butch$
    I am also attaching a screen shot of my DNS setup in Server Admin and any advice on how to correct if not correctly setup would be appreciated. (Oh, it appears I have nameservers set correctly for they will resolve).  How to configure mail in Server Admin Mail would also be appreciated, for some reason I always have trouble with mail setup.
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    Get the name of the mail server...
    $ dig MX +short HKMURRAY.NET
    10 mail.HKMURRAY.NET.
    $
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    $ dig +short mail.HKMURRAY.NET
    hkmmurray.NET.
    $
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    $ dig +short HKMURRAY.NET
    68.169.178.128
    $
    Ok.  That's the public IP.
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    $ dig +short -x 68.169.178.128
    host-68-169-178-128.EPSOLT1.epbfi.com.
    $
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  • Snow Leopard Server incoming Mail

    I am trying to set up my mail server with Snow Leopard Server. I am able to send messages out of accounts I've created, but I am not able to receive them. I receive this message:
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    Status: 5.1.1
    Diagnostic-Code: smtp;550 5.1.1 <[email protected]> invalid recipient
    How do I correctly set up it to receive incoming mail?

    It seems there are a few issues at hand and you're not alone. We've been experiencing the same issues on a clean install of SNS and have just turned off the default greylisting (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2130446&tstart=0) to see if that helps.
    The mail server seems to be working instantly for all 'normal' email but attachments can be problematic. Testing from my dot me account I can send a 10 MB attachment and it arrives fine within a few minutes but if I send it 3 or 4 times one of them will inevitably fail. The sporadic behaviour is making it vary hard to track down and I'm finding the logs quite hard to decipher.
    The other issue (which may well be the same issue) is where an email will arrive late - quite often exactly 60 minutes late - although we have seen this as much as 3 or 4 hours.
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  • Question about changing a Snow Leopard Server network settings

    We have an Xserve running Mac OS X Server 10.6.8, the primary services running on it are afp, smb, dhcp, dns, jabber and the calendar sever.
    Right now we have a router connecting two networks together, 192.168.0.0/24 and 192.168.1.0/24. The Xserve has a static IP address in the 192.168.0.0/24 range.
    In order to combine two phone systems into one I am required to combine the above networks, this will involve removing the router and changing the subnet mask on every device from 255.255.255.0 to 255.255.254.0, any device that is currently part of the 192.168.1.0/24 network will also need to have it's router setting changed from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.0.1. That part should all be easy.
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    Can I simply click the + to add another subnet and add for instance a range of 192.168.1.5 to 192.168.1.125?
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    Thank you for your very detailed reply.
    I understand the problems that can arise using 192.168.0.x and 192.168.1.x and if this were a new project I would definitely switch to something else, however in this case we have been using these ip ranges for years (they were in use here long before I started) and I don't want to have to redo all of my dns settings at the same time I make these other changes so I'm going to stick with the same ip's we are using at least for now. Anyone here needing vpn access has already dealt with this issue but we  have very few vpn users so it has not been a major problem for us to date.
    My biggest question is about increasing the size of the dhcp pool. For instance, after I change all the network settings and set up a /23 network is it possible to have a single dhcp pool that includes some ip's in the 192.168.0.x range and others in the 192.168.1.x range? I guess what I am asking is when I am in Server Admin and click on DHCP one of the tabs across the top is "Subnets". Right now there is a single "subnet" configured that provides addresses from 192.168.0.5 to 192.168.0.125.
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    The parts about changing subnet masks, and routers and all that I think I have a pretty good understanding of.
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    Greetings,
    I'm looking to see the best way to support remote users of an OS X server for handling mail/calendar synchronization. Some users will be in environments where they could connect directly, while others would be able to use the standard VPN services in OS X server to connect and synchronize. Others, however, would probably be limited to HTTP/HTTPS access to the server.
    I know that the web mail interface would work for this, though Squirrel Mail has never been a favorite of mine, but I'm attempting to support synchronization with their native clients. These would likely be Mail or Outlook, depending on the platform, though possibly Thunderbird would be in play.
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    Hi
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  • Please help, After mac 10.5.8 mail server migrated to snow leopard server?

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