Topic: Mail configuration in 4.0

[Jon Biddell]

Can someone point me in the right direction (FAQ's, etc) for mail configuration in version 4.0 ?

I have a fixed IP address, which resolves to predator.fl.net.au. my pop and smtp servers at my ISP are pop.isp, and smtp.isp.

What I'd like to do is get the gateway to poll the pop server every n minutes for email for both my wife and myself, and store that locally (we have severe problems with both the phone lines here and high winds knocking out the power frequently - yes, we have UPS's - BIG ones !!), and to allow is to collect that and reply via the gateway machine, which would forward it to the ISP's smtp server when appropriate.

I need (or rather, would like) to do this without making any changes at the ISP end.

Jon

[Charlie Brady]

Jon Biddell wrote:

> Can someone point me in the right direction (FAQ's, etc) for
> mail configuration in version 4.0 ?

Hi Jon,

You can configure your domain name via the console GUI, and then POP server polling and upstream SMTP server (if desired) via http://www/e-smith-manager.

If all else fails, you can download the User Manual from our web site

Regards

Charlie

[Bruce Warner]

Jon,

I've found the best outbound solution is to have the qmail server handle outbound traffic directly instead of handing it off.  SMTP then becomes a mute point.  The POP issue is really a fetchmail issue.  Recommend you download the fetchmail manual and FAQs, and make any necessary changes to the fetchmail configuration file as described in the manual, so you are properly configured for your ISP.  I have one or the more hostile ones, and had fetchmail working under Caldera's eServer 2.3, so I simple copied the configuration file between servers and it's working perfectly.

Bruce

[JOn Biddell]

Thanks Bruce - I've downloaded them...

Problem I have is that, while my ISP is friendly enough, they charge like wounded bulls for each change. I have my normal dial-up account, and my wife has an APOP account (email only, no login, etc).

I tried getting this going once before with RedHat, and ran into a problem with address translation.

i.e. If I am logged onto XENA as Jon, then my mail went out as being from jon@xena.localnet, which got bounced by their SMTP server - when it should have gone oiut as jon@fl.net.au.

Coming in, all mail to jon@fl.net.au should go to the "jon" mailbox, and all for jill@fl.net.au to the "jill" box. Additionally, anything sent to @predator.fl.net.au would need to be held for collection (requiring an ISP change, which I've put on the back urner for a while).

More reading to come, I fear...