Topic: mails received, all to admin! whats up with my users email?

[Stefan Brunnengraeber]

Hello,

some threads seem to disappear in the forum ...

Here once again:

Mails are received via multi-drop, but are not sortet and delivered to the users. All mails are delivered to the admin.

My servers domain name is the same of my internet domain. There I set up a default account, collecting all mails for the domain, then fetching them via one POP-account.

I used the real users names and the aliases that the server makes.

No mail reaches the user.

Whats wrong?

In admin tool the sorting method is set to default.

[stephen noble]

thats normal behaviour

and why i wrote e-smith-procmail
forward admin to yourself and set up procmail with my panel

see readme.dungog.net
and take a breath register.dungog.net

stephen noble

[stephen noble]

assuming you don't want to hassle your isp to either
- setup mx for your domain or
- add an X-delivered-to header to your mails

stephen

[Kelvin]

Stefan,

I use the default sort method with SME's and ESSG's multi-drop setting with no problems. If you could examine the headers of the e-mails you are getting through the admin mailbox, perhaps you could see a sort method you could specify as a custom sort method for SME to use ?

Kelvin

[Jaco Bongers]

Stefan

I have the same problem. Part of the reason is that we have mail servers upstream that strip out some of the mail headers and then all mail goes to admin.

I have been using Treslemail and that has solved to problem.

If you are interested I will make a Howto and provide you with the configuration and the addon to the the SME Manager panel.

Jaco

Stefan Brunnengraeber wrote:
> Mails are received via multi-drop, but are not sortet and
> delivered to the users. All mails are delivered to the admin.
>
> My servers domain name is the same of my internet domain.
> There I set up a default account, collecting all mails for
> the domain, then fetching them via one POP-account.
>
> I used the real users names and the aliases that the server
> makes.
>
> No mail reaches the user.
>
> Whats wrong?
>
> In admin tool the sorting method is set to default.

[Stefan Brunnengraeber]

I installed the procmail RPM and all except one question is solved!

Can I create a rule that deletes any other emails for recipients that are not set in other rules?

e.g.
there are users
stefan@xy.de
andreas@xy.de
Procmail forwards the mails to the users in their local mailbox.

I want to delete all other mails e.g.
nobody@xy.de, tester@xy.de etc.

Many thanks to Stephen Noble and his procmail RPM!

[Jim Darrough]

I am using version 5.0 and am also trying to set up multi-drop. I get mail from an isp called clipper.net. What I want to do is pick up all mail to ki7ay@clipper.net and then put it into my local account on the e-smith server, user jim@ki7ay.com.

Right now my secondary mail server is mail.clipper.net
pop user account is ki7ay
pop user password is the correct one (hah hah).
Sort method is default.

How can I make sure that my mail is put in the proper place so that I can retrieve it on my e-smith server? The server's name is www.ki7ay.com, which is a valid domain (alhtough hosted on a different isp than clipper).

Any help is appreciated.

[stephen noble]

did you read the previous posts ?
it.dungog.net -> readme -> procmail