Topic: q-mail error

[sam]

Hi

I have a few questions which are baffling me wonder if anyone could help

1:) my mail is not handled by the SME server and is downloaded directly from my ISP onto my win2k machine, even though i am still getting the mail my SME server seems to be trying to handle the incoming mail and returning an error msg when it cannot deliver.

the domain i am receiving mail on is the same domain (internal) that the SME server is setup to use.

"Hi. This is the qmail-send program at domain.com.
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, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) "

the email was sent to user@domain.com but SME wants to takeover the mail?! for some weird reason.

I have recently installed fetchmail for 5.6 (sme-fetchmail-1.0-2.noarch.rpm) which i want to use for another user to download mail to the server and then check it for spam etc before being passed onto the internal user. could this be causing the problem?! i have not set it up for the mail it is trying to route.

Also whr can i read up a bit more about the email settings?  ie multi-drop ? access blocking etc? the fetchmail screen has multidrop and individual mailboxes and eventhough i will be setting it up for individual mailboxes i would like to know what the multidrop function does? any good articles? or howtos

2) i applied the latest updates to my SME server and it shows up as

SME 5.6-04

is this patched to the latest update?!

Thanks
./S

[Michael Soulier]

sam wrote:
>
> 1:) my mail is not handled by the SME server and is
> downloaded directly from my ISP onto my win2k machine, even
> though i am still getting the mail my SME server seems to be
> trying to handle the incoming mail and returning an error msg
> when it cannot deliver.

Unlikely. The server will only attempt to handle mail that is passed to it. If mail is being improperly passed to the server, that is a DNS issue, and it is behaving properly by refusing delivery.

Mike

[sam]

thanks for your reply

I will look into it!

./S