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Title: SMTP Proxy problem
Post by: crazer1 on July 18, 2005, 06:21:24 PM

Hello,

I have a problem with my SME 6.0 box that I have not been able to solve on my own. I've been running this server since the early e-smith days and never had a problem until recently. First, let me describe what I have:

SME 6.0 running as a a Server & Gateway. It is connected to the internet via DSL modem (using bridged ethernet). I have a static IP on a 3mb DSL line. The server is connected to an 8 port switch which connects 4 clients and a wireless AP with 3 clients running off that.

I have 2 domains, www.*****.net and www.*****.com. The .net domain is hosted by my SME server and the .com is hosted by a commercial host that provides email services for the domain.

I have always used the .com domain for email and never had any problem checking or sending emails from behind the SME server. Ever since I upgraded to 6.0, I have not been able to send any emails using outlook or any other mail client from any of the PCs within my network.  I read the posts about SMTP Proxy and tried disabling it with no results. Here is what I have tried.

Regular setup:
I send an email from PC001 within my network, I get no errors from the mail client, email gets stuck in the remote queue and never gets processed.

Disable all email services on SME:
I send an email form PC001 within my network, I get no errors from the mail client, email gets stuck in the remote queue and never gets processed.

Regular setup with SMTP proxy disabled:
I send an email from PC001 within my network, I get an error stating that the mail client could NOT connect to the SMTP server.

Disable all email services with SMTP Proxy disabled:
I send an email from PC001 within my network, I get an error stating that the mail client could NOT connect to the SMTP server.


And to make sure that my ISP is not blocking SMTP connections to external servers, I connected PC001 to the DSL modem and tried sending an email that way, it worked.

For some reason, turning off SMTP proxy only serves to time out my smtp connection. I just can seem to figure this one out.

I have also tried opening port 25 on the SME box, that did nothing. I tired forwarding port 25 and that did nothing as well.

Any ideas on this would be great. It isnt a huge issue as I can still use Webmail for my .com domain but I would like to be able to solve this problem.

Please let me know if I need to post more info.

Thanks.

Title: Re: SMTP Proxy problem
Post by: gordonr on July 20, 2005, 07:39:09 AM

Quote from: "crazer1"

I have always used the .com domain for email and never had any problem checking or sending emails from behind the SME server. Ever since I upgraded to 6.0, I have not been able to send any emails using outlook or any other mail client from any of the PCs within my network.  I read the posts about SMTP Proxy and tried disabling it with no results. Here is what I have tried.

The previously posted instructions were wrong - try these ones:

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=27926.msg115692#msg115692

Title: SMTP Proxy problem
Post by: crazer1 on July 21, 2005, 07:42:33 PM

Those are the directions I followed. Just to make sure, these are the 2 commands I ran:

[root]# /sbin/e-smith/config setprop smtpfront-qmail Proxy disabled

[root]# /sbin/e-smith/signal-event remoteaccess-update


After these 2 commands, I get an error on the mail client saying that the SMTP server can not be contacted.

Is there something else I might be doing wrong or not doing at all?

Thanks