Topic: Wierd email behaviour after upgrading from 5.5 to 6.0

[guest]

Hi,

Recently upgraded from 5.5 to 6.0 by doing a fresh install.  Since then I've had some wierd email issues.

I mostly use Outlook Express as mail client, and use POP3 account from ISP on ISP's servers.  Incoming mail apears to be OK, but I have had some outgoing mail failures.  SME setup is private server & gateway - basically a stateless firewall/router.

Qmail on my SME box seems to be getting in the way of mail?  I don't understand why this would be the case given ooutlook is configured to point to the ISP for outbound SMTP.

Example of returned messages I'm getting ...
"Hi. This is the qmail-send program at dognet.org.
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.

<validuser@validmailserver>:
Sorry, I wasn't able to establish an SMTP connection. (#4.4.1)
I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long."

Why is Qmail getting involved here?

Thanks.

[mdo]

Hi,

it's a feature since SME 6.0 that (for a gateway setup) all outgoing smtp traffic is automatically redirected through your local smtp server. If you have an Antivirus software running on your server, this enforces each outgoing mail to be scanned which is quite nice I think.

To prove this: Try to telnet to an smtp server on the Internet (to port 25) and you will find that actually your own smtp server is answering.

This can be disabled in the SME configuration database which was mentioned in some other thread.

Regards,
Michael

[guest]

Thanks Michael.

I've also since found an option in the server-manager email setting page to send mail directly to the ISP's SMTP server ... not a suggestion I have seen elsewhere in this forum, but it seems to have sorted my outbound mail problem.