Topic: Emailed logs

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I've just started using SME server so I'm still trying to figure out all the features.  On past Linux servers that I've built using Suse things like my cron jobs for backups and running logdigest were emailed to me.  Is there an option for that here?  I'd like to get an email of my flexbackup logs every day and install logdigest so that I can be emailed any abnormalities in my system logs.

Is that possbile or am I going to have to create this in cron by hand.

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bump.

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All messages get sent to the admin account. Have you checked that ?

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Thanks,

Ok I found all the mail.  How can I setup this unit to forward that mail to an external email address.  The system is not handling mail for the domain.  It is just a simple samba file server with a tape backup.

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> How can I setup this unit to forward that mail to an external email address.  

You would do yourself a favour to read the manual, see documentation link at left, as your questions are of a basic nature & covered by the manual.
There is a setting in server manager that sets where admin email is sent to.

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I'm sorry I guess I'm not being very clear.  Let me explain further.

I've seen the manuals, for all the good they do as they are the wrong version.  I'm running version 7.

I have set the setting in the screen the email section to forward mail to my email address.  I'm not getting it.  I've checked the maillogs and they are all blank.  I had checked root's mailbox and found it empty.  Didn't know that the administrator user was setup to get all the system mail.  That account had over 80 messages in it but had stoped on the 12th.  I assume it's queue is full.  I've deleted all the mail and I will continue to check it now that I know where to find it.  But I'd like to find out why mail isn't being sent to me.

This system has no domain name.  I named it aes.local.  Could that cause the email to bounce?  On postfix systems there are ways to rewrite headers so that fake domain names don't leak out of the mail.  How do I do that here?

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> ..I'm sorry I guess I'm not being very clear.  Let me explain further.

If you only ask half the question you can't expect a full answer !


> I've seen the manuals, for all the good they do as they are the wrong
> version.  I'm running version 7.

If you click on Documentation/SME Server FAQs and then SME7Manual you will find it.


I now doubt you will find the answer you need in the manual though. It sounds like you have not configured your server to function as an email server correctly, perhaps beacuse you don't have a valid domain name or perhaps you have disabled email services.
Does webmail work ?

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Is a valid domain REQUIRED for this to work correctly, even if the server is only setup in serveronly mode?

Webmail works, once I turned it on.  Don't have a need for it here.  They only use this for samba and sql.

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> Is a valid domain REQUIRED for this to work correctly...

No, not for sending (in most usual situations), but your email system needs to be configured correctly and your network needs to allow the sme mail server to connect externally.


> Webmail works, once I turned it on.

I didn't only mean does it work as in open, I meant for you to use it to test your servers ability to send & receive mails.
Can you send email to an external address and receive email from an external address using say the admin webmail account on the sme server.

If webmail cannot send (and receive) then something is wrong with your general setup.

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No any mail I send just vanishes.  Which makes sense to me.  There is no legal domain here.  So there aren't any MX or A records in any real DNS server pointed to this box.  It doesn't have a fixed ip.

Any outgoing mail is going to be from admin@aes.local which most email servers would slap down as spam and even return to sender notices wouldn't make it back as there isn't a real domain to send it back to.  To most email servers this looks like spam. OINK!

I can fix this on a postfix server using the sender_canonical mappings.  Don't know how to do that with the MTA SME server uses.

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> There is no legal domain here.  
> ...any mail I send just vanishes.  Which makes sense to me.  

It doesn't make sense to me.
You don't need the sme server configured with a valid domain in order to send email.

> Any outgoing mail is going to be from admin@aes.local which most email servers would slap down as spam.....
> Don't know how to (fix) that with the MTA SME server uses.

Yes that is very likely to happen especially as you say you have a dynamic IP.
The answer is to put your ISP's mail server details in the email panel in server manager ie mail.myISP.com or whatever.

Of course you will not be able to receive mail on your server with a "fake" domain name.

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It doesn't make sense to me.
You don't need the sme server configured with a valid domain in order to send email.

You must have more forgiving ISPs where you live.  Here almost all the ISPs will bounce mail that leaks out with an invalid domain name as part of spam control.  The mail is set to relay through there smtp server but it still doesn't arrive.  That is the only option I've got as port 25 is otherwise blocked.

This is why I was wondering if there was a setting to perform sender_canonical mapping.  With that I can map the admin@aes.local to look like realenduser@isp.com.  As you are logging on to the isp's smtp server and the email has a return addy of a legal user the mail gets sent and any problem gets returned to a local user.  Most people have extra email they can use so I can setup an extra account have the server pop down incoming mail and push it to the office manager.  I can do all this in postfix.  I suspect it can be done here but I just need to know how.