Topic: SMTP Server

[billturnbull]

Hey all...

I want to use a simple install of SME to throw some internal emails around...

In short I have a Voicemail system that emails the messages to aliases that all end up in the same email box... accessed by IMAP in Outlook express...

However, the SME server doesnt allow me to simply throw emails at it on port 25. I think it is an Authentication issue. (the voicemail system is very simple eg no secure)

Any ideas?
(The SME Server and Voicemail are both in the same subnet...)

Thanks,
Bill

[axessit]

I'm no expert here, but two things worth trying...

1) Check your Proxy settings on the server panel and check the smtp proxy status is disabled or
2) Check the Email - >Change email reception tab and disable SMTP authentication - although this should only be on the internal interface.

Not sure if the Delegate Mail server is an option.....

[p-jones]

I am not an expert either but I think SME parses the from Header to ensure it is not working as an email relay.

The voicemail system would need to supply some form of 'from' header. That header would need to contain the valid domain that SME is set to operate in and a valid user on that domain.

So, if you server is on the voicemail.local domain and the vm user is operator then the email user would be from operator@voicemail.local . SME would need a valid user 'operator'

Present SME with this information in the "from" header and it should be all plain sailing....

[billturnbull]

yeah, I had that already but it still doesnt like it...

I tried to setup a dummy version in Outlook Express, just trying to send SMTP to the SME Server and tried all different combinations of authentication and secure auth that outlook supplies, but still no go...

I tried it on the SBS2003 server Im also running, it works fine... so the voicemail system is running ok...

I just dont seem to be able to use the SME Server as an SMTP server....

hmmmm

[CharlieBrady]

However, the SME server doesnt allow me to simply throw emails at it on port 25.

It does. You just have to comply with the protocol defined in RFC 2822.

I think it is an Authentication issue.

Don't think. Just describe exactly what you are doing and exactly what you see when you try to do it.

I tried it on the SBS2003 server Im also running, it works fine... so the voicemail system is running ok...

No, that just means that SBS2003 accepts something that SME server doesn't.

I just dont seem to be able to use the SME Server as an SMTP server....

Then you are probably not talking correct SMTP.

[CharlieBrady]

I am not an expert either but I think SME parses the from Header to ensure it is not working as an email relay.

No. SME server determines whether messages are relay attempts by examining the envelope recipient address ("rcpt to": in SMTP).

The voicemail system would need to supply some form of 'from' header.

That is true - From and Date headers are mandatory in SMTP, and that requirement is enforced by SME server.

[billturnbull]

sorted...

It turned out that (for the sake of a simple test) I was using the account: voicemail@voicemail.local to send, receive, from, to and everything else... I guess it just didnt like that...

I made another account and sent from one to the other and alllll works as hoped now...

Sorry for the brain fart...

Bill