Alexander Hotmail wrote: > *Sorry, I sent it in a hurry so I forgot I didn't change the subject*. (so did I :-()
> I sent the Mail from Microsoft Outlook Express. > > I was successfully authenticated and I logged in to both the Courier POP > and IMAP servers. And I successfully sent a test mail to someone outside > our system. > > However, when I decided to test local mail functionality by sending a > Mail to myself, it gave the error message. What do you mean by "yourself", was that address on the local Courier server? > With our Windows e-mail Server, when you send a mail to yourself, you > receive it instantly. Ditto for courier. The "idle" IMAP feature allows the client to notice the message without delay. However, the IMAP server can only serve local mail. > Like I mentioned in my previous e-mail, Serverplan is our e-mail ISP > based in ITALY. Our e-mail domains are hosted by them. You may have local and hosted domains, whose mailboxes are defined on the local server. And you may have domains that you accept mail for, without local mailboxes. This latter feature of SMTP, backup MXes, is difficult to set up unless the servers are administered by the same team and coordinated with one another; the difficulty is letting the backup MX know what mailboxes exist and coordinate filtering. Notice that you have three distinct configuration files in Courier. Usually, hosteddomains has a corresponding entry, e.g. esmtpacceptmailfor.dir/hosted > Our Windows server uses SERVERPLAN too, but when you send a Mail to > yourself, no matter whether it is an EXIM server or whatever, you > receive it instantly. You mean they immediately relay it to Serverplan's Exim server, correct? I still don't know where that error message came from. > *What is baffling me is that I was successfully authenticated by the > Courier Server, so why can't I send MAIL to myself*? *I am using USERDB > authentication, and all my tests using AUTHTEST and TELNET “ip address” > 110 or 143 were successful.* 110 and 143 are only used to retrieve local or hosted mailboxes. You have to enable SMTPAUTH if your server can be accessed from the Internet. Port 587 is particularly handy for sending mail from external networks that filter port 25, e.g. using laptops. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
