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SecurityGateway for Email Servers v10.5

Navigation: Setup/Users > Accounts

Automatic Domain Creation

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Use this page to designate whether or not you wish to create a new SecurityGateway domain automatically whenever an incoming message for an unknown user at an unknown domain can be validated by your default User Verification Sources. To open this page, click Setup/Users on the navigation menu in the left pane, then click Automatic Domain Creation under the Accounts section of that pane.

Configuration

Enable automatic domain creation

When enabled, SecurityGateway will query your default user verification sources whenever an incoming message is for an unknown address at an unknown domain. If the address is valid, SecurityGateway will create both the domain and user. Automatic Domain Creation requires at least one default user verification source to be defined, and since queries will be made for all unknown addresses, a large number of queries might be made. This feature is disabled by default.

When using this feature it is crucial that your verification sources are properly configured to verify ONLY valid users. If a verification source were an open relay, for example, then every incoming email to an unknown domain or user would be validated by that source. This would likely result in many erroneous domains and users being created, caused by incoming spam to invalid addresses.