Topic: Help Please, with my email problems

[farmerphil]

Hi Guys,
Great to see the site on the air again. It is very difficult when all problems happen at once.

I would like to pose a question for the forum, I have a client who uses M/S Outlook, for mail. I have installed a SME version 6 as the primary mail server for the business, it has a static ip address and is working perfectly, the client would like to use outlook outside of the LAN network to collect emails and to send, the collecting part works perfectly, I have granted pop access to the outside, but when sending the problem starts, as the SME will not allow relaying which is understandable.

I have what I feel may be a solution, but I do not know how to resolve and would really appreciate help.

Possible Solution
I would like to configure the outlook clients to use the DIALUP ISP smtp server, all the time, but when connected on the lan, have the sme server capture the smtp request, and process it locally. This way to the client the transition is transparent.


Hoping for help

Best Regards

Farmer

[bmph8ter]

Just set it up so you can authenticate to the SMTP server and relay.  http://www.pagefault.org/howto/securemail.shtml

[schirrms]

Possible Solution
I would like to configure the outlook clients to use the DIALUP ISP smtp server, all the time, but when connected on the lan, have the sme server capture the smtp request, and process it locally. This way to the client the transition is transparent.

Hi, to do that, you need to do ... nothing !
SME 6.0 come built-in with a SMTP transparenet proxy.
This way, if any client on the network try to connect to an external SMTP server, it's in fact the local SME server who catch the flow.

So maybe is that your solution.

HTH,

[bobk]

I only know of 2 ways to do what you want.

1. Secure Mail from pagefault.org

2. VPN

Some of my clients use method 1 some use method 2. Both work just fine. The choice depends on how much network access the remote users require. If they only need email then method 1 is mosy likely the best choice. If they need access to files etc then method 2 is the way to go.

[farmerphil]

Possible Solution
I would like to configure the outlook clients to use the DIALUP ISP smtp server, all the time, but when connected on the lan, have the sme server capture the smtp request, and process it locally. This way to the client the transition is transparent.

Hi, to do that, you need to do ... nothing !
SME 6.0 come built-in with a SMTP transparenet proxy.
This way, if any client on the network try to connect to an external SMTP server, it's in fact the local SME server who catch the flow.

So maybe is that your solution.

HTH,

Many thanks for reply, this option looks great, however I have tried this and I get a error mesage from the ISP mail server complaining that I am tring to relay through there server, so from this I can only conclude that the sme server is not proxing the mail correctly I am using version 6.01, any Ideas ??

Phil

[barryf]

That suggests that you have Outlook set up with the ISP's smtp server as the outgoing mail server, as well as the incoming.  Try setting the outgoing server to your SME box.

Barry

[farmerphil]

That suggests that you have Outlook set up with the ISP's smtp server as the outgoing mail server, as well as the incoming. Try setting the outgoing server to your SME box.

Barry

Hi Barry,
Yes I have the ISP smtp server setup in Outlook, but the sme server should proxy any request on port 25 and send them locally, and this does not seem to be happening.

Phil

[Jon_Reynolds]

I think what you are looking for is pop before smtp. What this does is if your client can authenticate first using pop they are added to the RELAYCLIENT for maybe 30 minutes. In this 30 minutes they are able to relay off of your server. Also, is there any reason they can't use the webmail while away from your domain? That way they would be using your smtp server to send as they would be logged in locally.

Hope that helps,

Jon