Topic: emails and ISP

[Naguib]

I have my email server with the isp, but i still would like to use the email server that comes with e-smith gatway version 5 at the same time as the isp email server.
 
My server is not online 24/7 that is why i still will need the isp. but i want a copy of the email on my server.
 
I don't know if it is posible,, but i think what i need is an email server that will download and upload email from and to my email server that is located with the isp.

 
N.B.
 
the domain i use is owned my me.

[Pieter van Haren]

I have te same problem as Naguib and I thought I could solve it with fetchmail.
So I used the e-smith-manager to till in the data for my mulit-drop-account.

I've set the e-msithserver tot collect my mail every 2 hours, but for some reason I get the following message in my admin-mailbox:

> Hi. This is the qmail-send program at fatspike.nl.
> 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, I couldn't find any host named hotmail.com. (#5.1.2)

fatspike.nl is my domain where I want to collect my email from and the domain of my e-msithserver. pvharen@hotmail.com is my testaccount.

I use an ISDN-router to connect to the Internet and I'm able to browse pages with it, so I know the connection to the Internet isn't my problem. I also can collect my email via Outlook using this connection, so the problem has to lie in the e-smithserver.

I've this problem for some time now, but somehow I can't get an solution.

Can anyone help?

Pieter

[Kelvin]

Pieter,

I have come across situations where for some unknown reason, SME / E-Smith cannot / will not deliver mail to particular domains (eg. one client had a situation where mail to everyone works EXCEPT to anyone with a bigpond domain like someone@bigbond.com, someone@bigpond.com.au, someone@bigpond.net.au, etc.) I have tried everything I can think of but the mails just simply will not go. I can ping any of those domains and browse the web pages on those domains, just cannot send mail to them. It is not the ISP as I have other sites on the same ISP with no problems.

The only way to work around the problem was to get SME / E-smith to pass the mail to the ISP's SMTP server for delivery (from SME server manager panel).

Perhaps this might solve your problem.

Kelvin

[Rick]

the bigpond mail servers see this as mail relaying and that's why they won't accept the mail, to the mail servers it looks just like a fake or hi jacked account that has sent the mail

[Kelvin]

Hi Rick,

That's interesting, but does not explain why it works on some and not others.

Exactly the same ISP same SME / ESSG server version just different clients. One works fine, another has this problem.

Go figure !  

Kelvin