Topic: e-mail setup (pop spooling ???)

[louis]

I’ve just installed e-smith server 5.6u4 on a pc and have problems setting up my e-mail server. I changed from a dial-up account to a DSL account.
My ISP hosts our mail for our domain eg.“@mycomp.co.za” and because we changed from dial-up to DSL we no longer have a static IP (witch is required for ETERN) and now they changed it form (ETRN) to POP.
I need to setup mail spooling, but nobody @ my ISP can tell me how to do so
PLEASE, PLEASE help

[Brian Read]

Have you looked at the manual which is on the CD? or here:


http://edocs.mitel.com/


under 6000 Managed Application Server (MAS)


Cheers


Brian

[louis]

My mail server worked beautifully until I had to change from ETRN to pop. I can send and receive mail internally but don’t cant receive mail from the outside or send mail to the outside. My IPS (hosting our mail) gave me a new SMTP and POP server address.  My current setting on the “server manager” webpage is;

E-MAIL RETRIEVAL:

E-mail retrieval mode      = multi-drop (it was ETRN)
Delegate mail server      = “blank”
Secondary mail server   = “ISP’s NEW POP server”
 POP user account (for multi-drop)= “my NEW account name”
POP user password (for multi-drop)= “password that came with the new account”
Select sort method (for multi-drop)= Default
Select sort header (for multi-drop)= “blank”

OTHER E-MAIL SETTINGS

Forwarding address for administrative notices= “blank”
E-mail to unknown users      = Return To Sender
Internet provider's SMTP server      = “my ISP’s NEW smtp server ip”
POP and IMAP server access      = Private
Enable/Disable Webmail      = Enabled Secure ….

I cant get it right, please help.

[Michiel]

Can you get to your pop3 account using for example Outlook Express?

Michiel

[louis]

yes, i think so.
if i put my isp's pop and smtp servers address in outlook express with username: allusers@"ourdomainname.co.za" it seems to want to send me the mail for all my users.

[louis]

does this meen that i have to use  ms exchange because that is all my isp supports

[Michiel]

> if i put my isp's pop and smtp servers address in outlook
> express with username: allusers@"ourdomainname.co.za" it
> seems to want to send me the mail for all my users.

Are you sure that allusers@"ourdomainname.co.za" is your correct user account? Most of the time it's just a series of letters and numbers.

Get Outlook running first, so you know the right settings for your pop3 account. I suppose your ISP can help you with that. If it works in Outlook, it certainly works in SME.

You can configure Outlook Express to leave all the mail on the server. (Extra - Accounts - Properties - Advanced - Leave copy on Server).  That gives you the time to test your pop3 settings without running the risk to get everybodies mail on your PC.

Once you have the correct settings, you'll know how to configure the server-manager (multidrop, etc.).


Michiel

[Ed Form]

louis wrote:
>
> My mail server worked beautifully until I had to change from
> ETRN to pop. I can send and receive mail internally but don’t
> cant receive mail from the outside or send mail to the
> outside. My IPS (hosting our mail) gave me a new SMTP and POP
> server address.  My current setting on the “server manager”
> webpage is;
>
> E-MAIL RETRIEVAL:
>
> E-mail retrieval mode      = multi-drop (it was ETRN)
> Delegate mail server      = “blank”
> Secondary mail server   = “ISP’s NEW POP server”
>  POP user account (for multi-drop)= “my NEW account name”
> POP user password (for multi-drop)= “password that came with
> the new account”
> Select sort method (for multi-drop)= Default
> Select sort header (for multi-drop)= “blank”

You need to put the ISP's POP server in as an IP address, not as a name.

Ed Form

[Charlie Brady]

Ed Form wrote:

> You need to put the ISP's POP server in as an IP address, not
> as a name.

That would only be the case if your (or their) DNS configuration was broken.

Charlie

[Nick Critten]

A quick way to check your dns/popserver/username/password settings are ok is to do the following...

Open a command prompt type:

ping pop.yourisp.com

make a note of the IP it pings.
If you get 'unknown host' then either you've been given the wrong server address or your DNS isnt working.

Log on as root onto the SME server & type:

ping pop.yourisp.com

Compare the IP addresses, If they are different your DNS is wrong somewhere.
If they are the same, type:

telnet pop.yourisp.com 110

you should get a response from your ISPs POP server.. If you do, type:

user

you should get .. Type:

pass

you should get if your username/password are correct.
type:

list

you should get a list of emails waiting for you.

you can type:

top 1 1

which will show you the header of the first email.


From this you should be able to tell if your DNS/server/username/password details are correct.  If they are, then double-check your settings for typo's and remember that passwords are case-sensitive

Hope that helps!

Nick