Topic: Turning off SMTP

[cydonia]

Hi,

Following on from another post I made, I am still having problems sending mail from any program on my computer.

SME seems to be sending each message twice.  Can I get mail to ignore SME?  I don't even use the mail server so I would rather it just went straight to my isp's SMTP server.

Whats the best way to disable my SME server's SMTP function?


Tristan

[cydonia]

Hmmm..  I'm starting to think that the problem is not really to do with SMTP in particular.

I have a feeling my SME box might be on its last legs...

Everything seems to be soo sluggish.  SSH, server-admin, they are all taking a long time, and even web access is a bit hit and miss.

Anyway to troubleshoot the problem?  I'm ready to just make it a server only and let my modem/router do all the web work...


Tristan

[raem]

cydonia

see the sme 6.0 release notes for how to disable the smtp proxy.

> Everything seems to be soo sluggish.  

Sounds like a networking or dns or memory or processor issue or a host of other things for that matter.

[cydonia]

Sounds like a networking or dns or memory or processor issue or a host of other things for that matter.

Thanks Ray, at this point, i'm gonna just watch things and see how they pan out.  I can always use webmail for outgoing as a temporary measure.

I was going to build a new box some time anyway...guess this might force me too...


Tristan

[raem]

cydonia

> see the sme 6.0 release notes for how to disable the smtp proxy.

A transparent SMTP proxy has been added, to force all outgoing SMTP connections to go through the SME server. This feature enhances security with respect to viruses and worms that use SMTP to propagate themselves.
If you wish to disable this proxy, you can do so via:
/sbin/e-smith/config setprop smtpfront-qmail Proxy disabled
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event remoteaccess-update


> Everything seems to be soo sluggish.  

If smtp proxy is not the reason for double messages (which it probably isn't) then your system sluggishness could be causing your email client to timeout and not register that the message has beeen already sent, and then send the message again ?? Ty increasing the timeout period in your email client.

Is your sme server set as your dns server (ie same IP) ?