I have just upgraded my SME box hardware to a new AMD 64 system and thought this would be an ideal time to upgrade to SME 7rc1
I must say I'm impressed so far although I have a rather serious issue with domains, email etc that I cannot seem to solve.
My setup with SME 6.5rc1 - running as a Server and Gateway
local IP 192.168.10.1, subnet 255.255.255.0 DHCP 100 - 250
External IP 192.168.1.50
My ISP - Wanadoo (UK) - ADSL - through a broadband router (IP 192.168.1.1)
My web host - US based company hosting my domain and my emails (domainname.co.uk). Email collected through multi-drop from a single pop3 account on the web host
My local SME domain domainname.co.uk. Using this as my local domain meant that emails were sent from username@domainname.co.uk but I could not ftp or view my actual website hosted in the US.
To get around this I changed the 'hostnames and addresses' records for www and ftp as below
Hostname
www.domainname.co.uk & ftp.domainname.co.uk
Visibility Local
location Remote
Local IP IP address of my hosting company’s server in the US
Global IP - NONE -
Ethernet Address - NONE -
This seemed to work fine.
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V7 Install
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I tried initially to set up my new v7 install changing the local domain to domainname.local. This works to a point but all my mail was being dumped in the admin account rather than being distributed to the mailboxes of the users.
I setup Pseudonyms for each user so that emails to username@domainname.co.uk would go through. Again this seemed to work ok. I then tried sending mail and kept getting returned as it was being sent from username@domainname.local and not a valid address. This was understandable so I setup a Virtual Domain domainname.co.uk.
In the Hostnames and addresses section I tried to setup the same settings I had used in SME 6.5rc1 but now SME complains that the IP address of my website and mail is not a local address, which it isn't so, ok. Tried global and that didn't work either. Now I'm a bit confused.
I then thought that this was way to complicated compared to my old set up so I started again using the same setup as with SME 6.5. This works perfectly apart from I cannot seem to change the www. and ftp. records to point to my external website.
I'm sure I am missing the big picture somewhere and maybe I exploited a loophole in 6.5 that I shouldn't have done, soooo could someone please help and tell me how to do it properly.
Any ideas would be greatly received.
Many thanks
James
PS. I realise I could setup outlook so that my e-mail address is reported to be username@domainname.co.uk but this doesn't help when I am using webmail.
PPS. I'm I cant be the only one this situation and the user manual seems to only cater for people who are hosting there own domains as well as using SME as a file, print and an email server. Would it be possible for an installation FAQ or additional section in the new manual to cover this?
Thanks again
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