Topic: SMTP problems

[Roger Wrethman]

Every time a user on the local network tries to send a mail out through e-smith, the modem dials.

The email will not send intill the moden has connected.

What is causing this, and how can I get it to send and receive local mail without connecting to the Internet.

Thanks

[Kim Morrison]

Dear Roger,

DNS lookups are required in the current version for email to be sent, even locally.  Your e-smith server is connecting to the internet to do that lookup. We are planning to make the DNS configuration smarter in the next version of our software so that email can be delivered locally without requiring a connection to the internet.

Thanks!

Kim

[Roger Wrethman]

if I add my local host to the /etc/hosts file, and make sure hosts is the first entry in the /etc/nsswitch.conf contains files first, before DNS.

Will the server check here before it tries to dial out to the DNS server?

ALSO

Does the server queue outgoing mail for delivery at scheduled times, or does it always send straight away?

Thanks.

[Charlie Brady]

[I wish the Phorum software would quote using
'> ' like email does.

1. The way e-smith works out of the box
changing /etc/hosts and /etc/nsswitch will not save you from DNS lookups. I've posted
a patch to the e-smith dev mailing list which fixes this.

2. qmail always tries to send mail straight away. You'll need to tweak diald to change that.

Roger Wrethman wrote:
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if I add my local host to the /etc/hosts file, and make sure hosts is the first entry in the /etc/nsswitch.conf contains files first, before DNS.

Will the server check here before it tries to dial out to the DNS server?

ALSO

Does the server queue outgoing mail for delivery at scheduled times, or does it always send straight away?

Thanks.