Topic: SME picking up SMTP traffic to ISP

[daem]

Hi,

I have the PC's on my network configured to use my ISP's SMTP server for sending mail and not the SME box.  For some reason though, even though I connect from the PC to smtp.myisp.co.uk, the mail is still sent from the SME box.  Even if I telnet on port 25 to smtp.myisp.co.uk, it comes back with domain name of my SME box.

Any ideas why it's picking up my port 25 traffic and handling it itself?  or how I can disable it?

Any help appreciated as I can't figure it out without disabling qmail!

[IanD]

I found mine did the same as that too yesterday. I'm not sure why but as a quick fix I put my ISP SMTP address in the email forwarding field of the server and now it passes everything on fine

Hope that helps

Ian

[daem]

Cheers for your response Ian and I have added the ISP's smtp server for the short term.  Hopefully that will cure my message delays.

However, I'm still not happy having the SME box picking up my SMTP traffic in that fashion.  It's main purpose is to be a webserver, fileserver, proxy and firewall.  
Email is simply for notifying me of system alerts and not for users.

Any other ideas how to stop the SME box picking up my SMTP traffic?

Dave

[Anonymous]

Thats exactly what I was saying here:

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=22120.0

Its getting rather annoying as I cannot test external mail servers that I use to see if they are running or not.

Anyone got any ideas?

[MSmith]

You could use that to disable all email functions, as your post indicated you are not using the email system at all.

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/smeserver/contribs/dmay/mitel/contrib/e-smith-service-control/

This is *reported* to work in 6.0 but I don't know for sure.  I did upgrade a box with that contrib all the way from 5.5 to 6.0, and the contrib seemed to function.  However, the machine had many other problems so I don't know if it actually works properly.  Try it on a test box and let us know ...

[Anonymous]

Did anyone find out why SME server is doing this yet?

[Anonymous]

sme 6.0 sends all smtp traffic via the server so that outgoing messages can be virus scanned (as well as incoming). It is the right thing to do if you want security.

Search here on
transparent smtp proxy

and you will probably find the answer you need

Regs
Ray Mitchell