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Title: cant receive email from Yahoo
Post by: Putude on October 30, 2002, 10:28:15 AM

dear all,
i am newbie.

i have configure my new e-smith with:


Networking parameters
Server Mode servergateway
Local IP address / subnet mask 10.x.x.x/255.255.255.0
External IP address / subnet mask 202.x.x.x./255.255.255.0
Gateway 192.168.65.1
Additional local networks No additional local networks defined
DHCP server disabled
Server names
DNS server 10.x.x.x
Web server www.myserver.com
Proxy server proxy.myserver.com:3128
FTP server ftp.myserver.com
SMTP, POP, and IMAP mail servers mail.myserver.com

Host IP Address
e-smith 10.x.x.x
e-smith-manager 10.x.x.x
ftp 10.x.x.x
mail 10.x.x.x
mail-server 202.x.x.x
proxy 10.x.x.x
www 10.x.x.x

i can send email but cannot receive from outside like yahoo, hotmail,etc.

whats wrong with my configuration ?

please help me.

the newbie

Title: Re: cant receive email from Yahoo
Post by: michel on November 01, 2002, 02:37:16 AM

hmm...I suppose that you try to access to hotmail with pop3. Hotmail only supports webmail or somthing that looks like pop within the latest version of outlook.  

I have no idea if yahoo supports pop3.

good luck

Title: Re: cant receive email from Yahoo
Post by: Andrei on November 01, 2002, 01:38:36 PM

Yahoo! charges a $29.00 yearly fee for POP access.

Title: Re: cant receive email from Yahoo
Post by: LordFray on November 08, 2002, 10:38:08 PM

I think they are saying that they aren't getting email from outside the domain.

No outside email is coming in?  Correct?  Or your attempting to retrieve email from hotmail and yahoo?

My esmith is having a similar problem.  Internal email is working, but emails from outside the system aren't coming in, even though public/published access is enabled.
Is this a firewall issue?  I'm using a cisco PIX instead of the firewall software in e-smith.

I noticed an error in documentation too?  The server manager said my webmail was:  http://'server-name.domainname/webmail

BUT the actual path that works is:  http://servername/webmail

Trial and error....I suppose..

Title: Re: cant receive email from Yahoo or any external domain
Post by: Malcolm Faed on November 14, 2002, 09:45:38 AM

Acually I have the same problem. I have found that the SMTP port is not open from the outside so mail can not get delivered from outside.

I think it worked fine before i upgraded to update 2, but I have just started trying to use it.

Thanks in advance.
M

Title: Re: cant receive email from Yahoo or any external domain
Post by: Malcolm Faed on November 14, 2002, 02:27:54 PM

To answer my own question.

I think (not 100% sure) somewhere between installing 5.5 and after applying update 2, Inbound SMTP gets disabled when you are in Private-Server & Gateway mode.

If I reconfigure to server-gateway, inbound SMTP is enabled.

I would prefer to run in private-server mode with inbound SMTP enabled.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to acheive this.

Thanks and regards,
Malc.