Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED] I run a CGP mail server in house. That is, on our side of the router. The name of the mailserver is mail.company.com and it's local IP number is 192.168.1.6 The firewall/Router correctly sends all mail traffic to it, and that all works fine.
Almost everybody in the company uses Claris Emailer, which by & large is great. No problems with it. Really Sturdy software!!! :-) But this week some people are getting a lot of mailserver timed out errors. Such as; " ** Couldn't complete the last command because the connection timed out." With the occasional; " ** Couldn't complete the last command because a network stream error occurred." thrown in for good measure. I really doubt that the mailserver is not responsive, so I'm guessing that the problem is more likely that the internet connection gets wonky sometimes, and this is the symptom we can see. The way everybody is set up (see OLD way, below) sends their every few minute POP request out the router and back in the router. Wasteful, but it's been ok. So what I'm thinking of doing is telling the people with the strongest bad symptoms to try using the local IP number as their pop server name instead of mail.company.com. So that would make the Emailer account settings OLD WAY: pop account: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW: pop account: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I did this before, and it seems like it was working OK, but the problem was that Emailer snuck this new setting into the mail headers, and some mail servers rejected our mail saying that 192.168.1.6 was not a valid name. Well duh. I was surprised to see that IP in the headers. So what should I do? 1) Should I run a local DNS server to map mail.company.com to the local IP before it can get out of the building? I'm not running a local DNS now, just using the ISP's dns servers. (THE Chris, the One and Only Chris) has already nailed this problem to the wall? That would also mean that I might be able to get away with [EMAIL PROTECTED] which would also reduce the traffic crossing through the router. 3) Something else? Thanks, Dave Nathanson Mac Medix ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
