Topic: outlook express with e-smith

[Ian Campbell]

Hi there,

I'm running e-smith 4.1.2 and am having trouble recieving mail via outlook or outlook express clients.  

Web mail works fine and sending from outlook or outlook express is also ok.  It;s just receiving thats a problem.

My mail settings for incoming and outgoing are both set to the following;
 
mail.etoh.dyndns.org

I've also tried using my hostname instead of 'mail' but thats no good either.

Thanks,

Ian

[Lloyd Keen]

Try putting just "mail" in both the incoming and outgoing mailserver addresses or the IP address of the e-smith box.

[Ian Campbell]

ok. I tried that but it is still the same.  I can send but not receive.  

thanks anyway.


any other ideas?

[Ian Campbell]

I think I might not understand how this should actually be working.  Is e-smith completely hosting my mail?  ie. do I need a pop acccount with an ISP or can e-smith do everything.  

I just tried changing my account details in outlook for authentication and I can still send out.  Does this mean that q-mail is just acting as a relay and sending anything straight out regardless of the sender's credentials?

Has anyone got e-mail working with both send and receive using outlook 2000 or outlook express???


Help!!!!

[Robert Boerner]

e-smith does host all your mail completely. I have used both Outlook Express and 2000. I need some more details though. What error message (if any) do you get? How have you configured your clients? For IMAP or POP3? What have you put in the fields for the servers? IP addresses or host names?

Try this...

Put the IP address of the server in both the SMTP server field in Outlook and in the POP3 server field. Also check the email settings in the e-smith-manager. Just guesses. YMMV.

[Justin]

> Try this...
>
> Put the IP address of the server in both the SMTP server
> field in Outlook and in the POP3 server field.

try 192.168.1.1

Justin.

[Ian Campbell]

thanks guys.  I'm an idiot.  I had never actually tried it with IMAP.  I've been using pop3 the whole time.  Changed it to IMAP and all my test messages came flowing through!

thanks guys.

It's 2 in the morning here and the night's not over yet...

[Nitehawk]

Outlook 2000 works with POP3 mail using the IP for  SNMP / POP3 mail server.

Just thought you might like to know.


Nitehawk

[Nitehawk]

Outlook 2000 works with POP3 mail using the IP for  SNMP / POP3 mail server.

Just thought you might like to know.


Nitehawk Ian Campbell wrote:
>
> thanks guys.  I'm an idiot.  I had never actually tried it
> with IMAP.  I've been using pop3 the whole time.  Changed it
> to IMAP and all my test messages came flowing through!
>
> thanks guys.
>
> It's 2 in the morning here and the night's not over yet...