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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 7.x => Topic started by: ohaldi on March 08, 2006, 12:28:51 PM

Title: SME 7 / Mail-Server
Post by: ohaldi on March 08, 2006, 12:28:51 PM: I just installed SME 7 (serveronly). LAN with a ZyXel ADSL Router.

The SME Server can't send or receive e-mails.

SMTP:
J just add the SMTP provider name someting like smtp.provideri.ch (same as I have on my PC) but do not work!

POP:
I don't have a multipoint accound. But I like to hold e-mails from two POP account. Is this with SME 7 possible?

Many thanks in advance for any help.

Otto
Title: SME 7 / Mail-Server
Post by: MSmith on March 08, 2006, 12:39:15 PM: Sounds like you haven't specified your ZyXEL as the gateway in your SME Admin setup (NOT the Server Manager) so the SME Server can't find your ISP's SMTP server. As for the second problem, there's a fetchmail contrib that works beautifully here:

http://www.schirrms.net/sme/SMEFetchMail.php
Title: Re: SME 7 / Mail-Server
Post by: CharlieBrady on March 08, 2006, 02:29:42 PM: Quote from: "ohaldi"

POP:
I don't have a multipoint accound. But I like to hold e-mails from two POP account. Is this with SME 7 possible?

Your mail client can fetch directly from those mailboxes.
Title: SME 7 / Mail-Server
Post by: ohaldi on March 09, 2006, 09:44:38 PM: Quote
Sounds like you haven't specified your ZyXEL as the gateway in your SME Admin setup (NOT the Server Manager) so the SME Server can't find your ISP's SMTP server.

I have specified the ZyXel gateway. The internet access for updates work!

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As for the second problem, there's a fetchmail contrib that works beautifully here: http://www.schirrms.net/sme/SMEFetchMail.php

OK, I will test fetchmail. Thanks for your help.
Title: SME 7 / Mail-Server
Post by: CharlieBrady on March 09, 2006, 09:58:08 PM: Quote from: "ohaldi"

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As for the second problem, there's a fetchmail contrib that works beautifully here: http://www.schirrms.net/sme/SMEFetchMail.php

OK, I will test fetchmail. Thanks for your help.

That's a complicated way of dealing with the issue. Why do you not like the idea of the user's mail client fetching directly from external mailboxes?
Title: SME 7 / Mail-Server
Post by: Franco on March 10, 2006, 12:38:36 AM: Fetchmail is wonderful!
It goes out and get my mails, they get scanned and delivered fine.
It also let me have multiples mailboxes, where in the client I only need to set a single mailbox.
I also block access to external mailboxes, no virus coming in by users setting things on their own. [This could be your problem here, or your modem blocking something]
;-)
Title: SME 7 / Mail-Server
Post by: MSmith on March 10, 2006, 06:36:06 AM: Quote from: "CharlieBrady"
That's a complicated way of dealing with the issue. Why do you not like the idea of the user's mail client fetching directly from external mailboxes?

One of the main reasons I'm so very very fond of 7.0 is its antivirus and antispam capabilities; I have installed it in several organizations for the filtration of email for one or a few individuals. Especially with the fetchmail contrib, where it's not feasible to fiddle with an entire domain's worth of email it's nice to take an old PC, shove it in a corner and watch the users' virus count drop to zero and their spam drop 95%. So yes it's complicated but the rewards are great!

Thanks AGAIN to the developers for this superb product.
Title: SME 7 / Mail-Server
Post by: ohaldi on March 13, 2006, 08:23:23 PM: Quote
Fetchmail is wonderful!

Thanks to all. I can now get the emails from 3 pops account.
But I still have a little problem to send emails with the webmail!

I get the following error message:
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at serlix.local.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<ohaldi@freesurf.ch>:
Connected to 194.158.229.8 but sender was rejected.
Remote host said: 553 <ohaldi@serlix.local> unable to verify address[/quote][/code]
Title: SME 7 / Mail-Server
Post by: gizzmo2k1 on March 13, 2006, 09:52:49 PM: Thanks MSmith,

I've been looking for a contrib like this for a long time. Most appreciated. Works like advertised.
Title: SME 7 / Mail-Server
Post by: p-jones on March 13, 2006, 11:42:27 PM: ohaldi@freesurf.ch>:
Connected to 194.158.229.8 but sender was rejected.
Remote host said: 553 <ohaldi@serlix.local> unable to verify address

This sounds like the recipient has some form of checking that is unable to validate your domain. (I note your domain is serlix.local). A DNS lookup of that domain would probably fail. Since it is much harder to reconfigure any one recipeints mail rules, it is very easy to reconfigure your own.

A good start would be to set SME to hand off mail delivery to your ISP. This is achieved from the server manager, email , delivery options. Set the delivery option to smtp.your-isp.

HTH
P
Title: SME 7 / Mail-Server
Post by: p-jones on March 13, 2006, 11:48:23 PM: Oh yes - depending on your ISP, you may need to provide a user-name and password before you can send email.