Topic: Ok, I'm Thick. Your help please.

[Paul Clyne]

Be gentle, I'm only a newbie...

looking to install e-smith for our internal mail service, and have sort of got the basics but I'm having problems with external email accounts.

We have a domain being hosted by our ISP.

I have managed to get e-smith to collect my mail but I'm very frustrated when trying to send email to external accounts or accounts that have not been created on the e-smith box.

We operate across several remote sites and this is where I'm comming undone {I think}

If I send an email to otherworker@mydomain.com.au (and that user account isn't configured on e-smith as they are remotly located.) I would like e-smith to pass this email to our ISP's mail server so as that use can collect it from there.  Currently e-smith returns an error message saying the user could not be found.

Should I be using a virtual domain for this (my original domain {same as the domain on the ISP} choice could be wrong) ?.

I understand Linux (a bit) but virtual domains are still in that _very_ grey area.

Your advice please..

Thanks heaps in advance.

[Geoff Bennion]

You could try the following, I don't know if it will work, but here goes.

For the remote user account, create a user on your esmith box.
Now set it to forward all mail for that user to SMTP_SERVER.MYISP.COM (your ISP SMRP Server).

That should put that users mail in your ISP's mail box, ready for retreival.

[Peter Wells]

I had a similar problem & Geoff's idea seemed like a good one.

My situation is that I have 3 ISP POP mailboxes, one of which is wildcarded & used for e-smith multidrop. The other 2 have different ISP logon IDs and I want to use them for email addresses outside of the premises. Of course, sending email to either of these two addresses from the e-smith system, stays within the system & never gets to the outside world.

However, I tried it tonight & it does not work...

Any other thoughts anybody?Geoff Bennion wrote:

> You could try the following, I don't know if it will work, but
> here goes.
>
> For the remote user account, create a user on your esmith box.
> Now set it to forward all mail for that user to
> SMTP_SERVER.MYISP.COM (your ISP SMRP Server).
>
> That should put that users mail in your ISP's mail box, ready
> for retreival.
>
>

[Peter Wells]

BTW I don't know if it helps any, but I solved my problem with a kludge.

I created another Email client profile with the ISPs SMTP Server set, rather than mail.e-smith.blah. I use this profile to send email to outside addresses in my domain and it works (even if painful)... :-}