Topic: Getting SME server to accept user@[127.0.0.1]

[Andrew Hodgson]

Hi,

I am getting on very well now with the server despite some early problems - however, I need to get the server to accept mails addressed to:
user@[127.0.0.1]

Where the ip is of course my fixed ip address - SME does not know about this because I am behind a router.

Any suggestions? The virtual domain manager will not allow the creation of this domain.

Andrew.

[Paul]

Andrew,

It depends on a lot of things:

What type/brand of firewall (eg: hardware, software etc.)
How many external static IP's do you have?
How many other web/mail servers are there behind this firewall?
Can this SME box have it's own IP?

[Andrew Hodgson]

Paul wrote:
>
> Andrew,
>
> It depends on a lot of things:
>
> What type/brand of firewall (eg: hardware, software etc.)

Hardware 3com firewall set to port forward SMTP requests to the local ip address of the SME server.

> How many external static IP's do you have?

One - 195.166.147.102

> How many other web/mail servers are there behind this firewall?

One other mail server which deals with news2mail / mail2news gateways, but this is not an issue since E-smith deals with this via local users on the box forwarding to user@[192.168.1.3]

> Can this SME box have it's own IP?

It has its own internal ip which is 192.168.1.2

Hope this helps,
Andrew.

[Paul]

Andrew,

Are you trying to recieve these emails from behind the firewall our outside the firewall?

[Andrew Hodgson]

Hi Paul,

Yes, outside users were sending to this address.  I am not sure why this particular person did this, but as he pointed out this should be accepted as per the RFCs.  However, I understand that this could cause a problem, as the E-smith server doesn't know my real ip.

Andrew.

[Paul]

I,m a bit confused as to what you are trying to do, let's see if I have this right?

1-You have a NON-SME server with an ip of 192.168.1.3 that you use as an internal only news server.

2-You have an sme server with an ip of 192.168.1.2 that is set up as a mail server.

3-You have a 3com firewall/router with SMTP mail forewarded to 192.168.1.2.

4-You want to be able to recieve emails to userX@195.166.147.102 and have it forewarded to the sme server at 192.168.1.2.

If this is the case then it should work and you don't need a virtual domain.  Any email sent to userX@195.166.147.102 should automatically be forewarded to userX@your_domain_name_of_the_sme_server.com.  Of course you will have to set up userX, userY, userZ and so on in the sme box.