Topic: sme as email server on fake domain

[Scott Smith]

> As I understand it, the Secondary Mail Server entry if for
> the name of the ISP Mail server you are attempting to collect
> mail from and should not be reliant on whether or not you
> actually have a valid local domain name or not.  Isn't the
> entry for delegating SMTP mail forwarding on the page called
> Other e-mail settings under the entry called Internet
> Provider's SMTP server ?

Oops, you are correct. I was reading secondary mail server, but thinking SMTP server. Still, if you are use SME as the outbound relay the domain needs to be legit.

> In glc's case, you are correct that I am mistaken, you CANNOT
> leave the secondary mail server setting blank if you set SME
> to Multi-drop. Instead, just enter any one of the pop servers
> you are trying to collect mail from. And if you find that SME
> won't send your mails out, configure SME to relay mail to
> your ISP's SMTP server as mentioned above from the Other
> e-mail settings page.

Again, if the domain specified for SME is fake, just setting SME to forward to the ISP may not work. I think with a fake domain it is better to have the email client point directly to the ISP's SMTP relay rather than to SME.

Scott

[glc]

Doesn't look like it's going to work.  Send via SME is not a problem, but here's what's returned when I try to send through an email address configured to use my ISP's incomming/outgoing mail servers:

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at lan.xxx.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

:
Sorry. Although I'm listed as a best-preference MX or A for that host,
it isn't in my control/locals file, so I don't treat it as local. (#5.4.6)


At least I'm not getting the mail.myisp.xxx error anymore:)

[glc]

Kelvin wrote:
>
> Before I ask you to try anything else, can you e-mail me your
> /etc/fetchmail file so that I may see what it is trying to do
> ? If you wish you may make a copy of it first then edit the
> copy to blank out any passwords that are in there before you
> e-mail the copy to me.
>
> Kelvin

How do I copy this from my SME server so I can attach it to an email?

[Kelvin]

You could put it into an accessible ibay and copy it from a Windows PC then email it as an attachment.

Kelvin

[glc]

Kelvin wrote:
>
> You could put it into an accessible ibay and copy it from a
> Windows PC then email it as an attachment.
>
> Kelvin

Ok, but fom the console, how do I copy it to an ibay?  What's the command?

[Kelvin]

The copy command in Linux is cp

cp  /etc/fetchmail  /home/e-smith/files/ibays/i-bay-name/files

Kelvin

[glc]

OK.

I won't be emailing it right now though  b/c I think i got it working.  I'm going to test it for at leas the rest of the day.

thaks...