Topic: SME 7.5.1 help

[colosanti]

Hello forum, i am new user here!
I am posting this in General Discussion because i cant create a new topic in SME Server 7.x ):

My problem is that i want to send a email to all my domain ej:
send to: everyone@domain.com

and 1@domain.com 2@domain.com 3@domain.com will recive it.

Who can i do?

Thanks!
Santiago

[warren]

There is a pseudonym : everyone    Everyone(local network only)

send to: everyone@domain.com

will send to all user accounts AFAIR 

[janet]

colosanti

Alternatively if you want to send from externally, then create a group
eg
groupnameall

add every existing user to the group
then send email to
groupnameall@domain.com

Of course whenever you add a new user in future, then during the process you should make them a member of the group groupnameall

Regarding your sme 7.5.1 server, unless it is a standalone server with no connection to the Internet, then you should upgrade it to sme7.6 & then to sme8.1 ASAP. That old server has security issues & will get hacked or compromised one day, so upgrade BEFORE that happens.

[guest22]

Santiago,

I concur with Janet, please plan an upgrade to at least SME server 8. And then plan an upgrade path to SME 9 for the near future.

guest

[colosanti]

Thanks for the answers!

Making a group and sending to the name of the group ej: (group@domain.com) works
but!... the email that i send arrives double to the users! any ideas? (memberOfGroup@domain.com recives the same email twice just in the same moment)

other thing: the everyone@domain.com didnt work. is there a place that i can activate it?

and the last thing; is there a form to upgrade the sme server? or i have to reinstall a new one 0km?

pd: sorry for my bad english,
Thanks again,
Santiago

[janet]

colosanti

Somewhere you would have double forwarding configured.
Did you inadvertantly include everyone group in the groupnameall group ?

Check the headers of both emails received, they should show you the delivery path of each email and allow you to see why/where the second one is coming from.

The everyone@domain.com is only usable for local users ie on the LAN or connected via VPN. External users cannot send to this.

Re updating your server from 7.5.x
All the sme7 repos are moved to the obsoleted tree or defunct (closed). It is possible to use yum to update, but quite tricky as repos have to be set up in a non standard way.

The easiest way is to download the sme server 7.6 CD iso, burn a bootable CD & upgrade your server from CD. Look in the obsoleted iso tree of mirrors, see for 32 bit iso
http://mirror.canada.pialasse.com/releases/obsolete/7.6/iso/i386/
It is recommended that any sme7.x server be upgraded to the final release of sme7.6 before upgrading to sme8.x.

Then you can use a similar approach to update to sme8.0 or sme8.1 ie via disk, but I think you may have to burn the v8.1 iso image file to a DVD due to size constraints. Please check the update pages accessible from the main Wiki page. You can also use yum for that upgrade but you need to follow instructions carefully.

I think the sme8.0 iso will fit on a CD, but then you will have a few hundred Mb of updates to download when doing a yum update to sme8.1 (not a problem really on unlimited ADSL2+ etc).

Updates to sme9.0 can then ONLY  be done by performing a full backup on sme8.1 & restoring that on a newly installed sme9.0 OS. There is no direct upgrade path, due to limits imposed by CentOS.

During all these updates your data & configuration & users etc should remain intact, but always do a full backup to USB before each major upgrade.