Topic: Mail questions: admin gets mail from outside but doesn't tra

[Pieter Links]

Hello,

Thanks for e-smith server/gateway/firewall. It's a very good product.

I have installed the current version of e-smith as server/gateway, and the clients PC's use Windows 9x. To collect and manage the mail they use Outlook Express (is Outlook better ?). I have made a IMAP-account on all the clients and for all the users, pointing to the same user (e.g. 'officemail') on the e-smith server, so that all the users can share and manage the office mail box. I have also made a POP-account to retrieve mail from another mailserver on the internet (private use). The mail retrieval setting is multi-drop, using a dialup connection via a normal telephone line; the secondary mail server is a pop-mailserver outside the private network.

Questions:

1. When I retrieve the mail with the IMAP-account, the mail is retrieved, but not stored in the 'officemail' mailbox, but in the 'admin' mailbox. I could only forward the mails as root with pine to 'officemail', and the original sender is lost (not in the header but in Outlook Express). Why is the mail not tranferred, and how can I correct it?

2. When I transfer the mail, retrieved with one of the POP-accounts, in Outlook Express, to the IMAP-mailbox inbox 'officemail', the original mail date and time are lost and replaced with the date and time of the transfer. Why? And how can I prevent it or alter this habitude?

3. What type of service I have to install in Outlook (not Express) to use the IMAP-mailbox as mentionned above? It is not really clear to me.

4. Is an LDAP addressbook the same as a (shared) Outlook Express addressbook?

Thanks a lot for your answers.

Pieter

[guestFF]

Hi,

1. Create a virtual domain for the mail you are polling. E.g. if mail is sent to pietje@belgium.be, at least 1 virtual domain must be called 'belgium.be'.

2. You can't, the header is changing because the orifinal recipient is lost as you (as root) are forwording from your own mailbox. Will be solved according to point 1.

3. IMAP (both outlook & express) , (extra, servies, add, IMAP) but, you may want to use pop. If you use the web-mail function of e-smith, you are on IMAP.

4. The standard Ldap function that cones with e-smith is for local accounts only (So no shared adress book of non local info). Howto set up your Ldap to use as a general (shared and flxible address book, look in the forum at:
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=11221.msg42229#msg42229

ps. all of my suggestions are intended to be of any help. Should anybody have a better or more accurate comment, please do so. Only tying to help.

Good luck and regards!

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[Pieter Links]

Hello,

Thanks for your response. But I don't understand some things.

> 1. Create a virtual domain for the mail you are polling. E.g. if mail is sent to
> pietje@belgium.be, at least 1 virtual domain must be called 'belgium.be'.

Say, I have a company which is called 'TomPouce'; I have a POP-mail account at 'freemail.com'. Thus my mail address will be 'TomPouce@freemail.com'. The e-smith-server is configured for the (real) domain 'TomPouce.be'. The user which is there on the e-smith-server for the common mailbox via IMAP is called 'tom'. Which virtual domain should I create to collect the mail from my POP-mail account at 'freemail.com'?. In the configuration screen there is no possibility to direct the incoming mail via IMAP to a user on the e-smith-server. I can collect the POP-mail via the POP-account in Outlook Express, but at the transfer from that Inbox to the IMAP-Inbox the original date is lost (a transfer back restores the original date in the first).

> 3. IMAP (both outlook & express) , (extra, servies, add, IMAP) but, you may
> want to use pop.

I can't find any IMAP-service in Outlook (only MAPI).

Thanks for your answers,

Pieter