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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 7.x => Topic started by: cousin-it on September 28, 2007, 04:52:44 PM

Title: Setting up PDA to send/receive from a SME box
Post by: cousin-it on September 28, 2007, 04:52:44 PM

I am trying to set up my PDA to send/receive email from my SME Server 7.2. I can get my PDA to receive the new email FROM the SME but I can't get the PDA to send email using the SME box (ie smtp=mail.myserver.com). Can anybody shed some light on this? I turned on SMTP Relaying with authentication, but still don't work. I can use my ISP (or whatever ISP I am connected to) as the SMTP server and everything works great.

I need to get this working so I can utilize the PDA the way it was designed. I don't want to have to change the SMTP server setting everytime I connect to a different WiFi. I won't always know who the ISP is.

Thanks for the help. Please help me get this working.

Title: Re: Setting up PDA to send/receive from a SME box
Post by: girkers on September 29, 2007, 02:19:51 AM

Have you opened the port needed for as this could be blocked. Here is some info on email ports:

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Service TCP Port Notes
SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol 25 * As part of the anti-spam best practices, you should block this outgoing for any machine that doesn't need to send email directly.
SMTPs - secure SMTP 465 Port 465 shows up Appendix A of the 1996 non-standard standard The SSL Protocol Version 3.0 as "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol with SSL". Unfortunately, it's not registered for SMTPs, it's registered for URD - "URL Rendesvous Directory for SSM" by Cisco. The recommended approach, at least for authentication, is to use START TLS encryption on submission port 587.
(SMTP email) submission 587 * See RFC 2476 - Message Submission.
POP2 - Post Office Protocol 2 109 * obsolete
POP3 - Post Office Protocol 3 110 *
POP3s - secure POP3 995 * Full description is "pop3 protocol over TLS/SSL (was spop3)".
IMAP3 - Interactive Mail Access Protocol v3 220 * obsolete
IMAP4 - Internet Message Access Protocol 4 143 * Also referred to by version as IMAP4.
IMAPs - secure IMAP 993 * Full description is "imap4 protocol over TLS/SSL". Use 993 instead of TCP port 585 "imap4-ssl", which is deprecated.
Exert taken from: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~rakerman/port-table.html (http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~rakerman/port-table.html)

Title: Re: Setting up PDA to send/receive from a SME box
Post by: mmccarn on September 29, 2007, 05:29:20 PM

Have you successfully configured a remote email client that can send and receive using your SME?  By default, remote clients must use smtps (smtp using ssl encryption) for email relay, on port 465.  This causes the username & password conversation to be encrypted between the remote computer and the SME server for security.

Here is a link to the Email howto, describing the required settings for Outlook Express: http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Outlook.2FOutlook_Express_give_error_10060.2F0x800CCC90

It would be great if you could add your instructions to the same page once you get it working.