Topic: Email

[Tony]

I am running E-Smith 5.6 Server as Server Only and it is behind a router (firewall)
when I send emails from webmail I can recieve them in outlook, but when I reply or send an email using outlook to the server (user) address it bounces back...
with a pop error.  Can someone tell what I am doing wrong?  do I have to forward a port in the router?  I am not sure.

Thanks
Tony

[Bill Talcott]

Are you on the same LAN as the SME? You can only access the SMTP server to send mail if you're on the same LAN. Otherwise anyone anywhere would be able to send mail from your server. If you want to add authentication to the SMTP server for external access, use Damien Curtain's SASL contrib.

And yes, if your SME has a private IP behind a router with the public IP, then you'll need to forward any ports to it for services that you wish to use.