On Dec 6, 2010, at 5:08 PM, Levan, Jerry wrote: > > On Dec 6, 2010, at 4:24 PM, Dan Shoop wrote: > >> >> On Dec 6, 2010, at 4:04 PM, Levan, Jerry wrote: >>> I guess I need to set up a dummy account on server so that the iPad and my >>> macbook pro don't >>> fight over grabbing mail from server.skynet. >> >> No, you need to properly define what your problem actually is. Right now >> it's not clear what you're actually trying to do. >> > > My problem *was*: How can I directly send an email from my iPad/iPhone to a > machine on my local network.
Well you've not made clear how you want to do that. Are you using the iPad/iPhone mail app? Are you using a username/password? You want to send a mail message from what account to what account through what machines? You need to describe this fully on order to know what you're trying to do. From whom (email address) via what server and network to whom? > The problem was complicated by the closed nature of the iPad, it is not clear > how mail on the > iPad works. Actually this make little to no difference, it's all an issue of mail client settings and what you're doing on the server end. > My solution to the problem involved having access to pop (or imap) servers on > the local network Well you also need a SMTP server on this local server too. And in which case you can use that account to send your mail message. > and a local DNS server. A DNS network, that given some of your other comments, suggests is improperly configured. You can't shoot both horizons or have two different views of a zone in the same DNS set up. > I suspect most iPad users do not have either of these two software > services available on their home networks. Well you need either some local server or a remote server which will most always require you AUTH and use ports other than SMTP's port 25 since many, if not most, dynamically assigned IP addresses assigned from ISPs won't permit port 25 traffic from your network or it will be blocked by mail servers on the rest of the Internet that block dynamic ranges. So you may very likely need to use a higher port like the submission port, etc. If you have a local server and are on a dynamically assigned IP address from your ISP you'll also need to smarthost the mail from your local server to a SMTP server at your ISP or elsewhere. > I created a pop email configuration on the iPad that accessed my account on > one of the > local machines. > > When I select this pop account to send mail to machines on my local net I > found that the > iPad sends the mail first to the specified outgoing server and that server > then forwarded > the mail to the target machine in my local network. Well this isn't really so much a POP account here but that there's an associated SMTP user account that you can use. > Now it turns out that I have cron reports sent to my user accounts on the > local networks > for each machine. Well then those accounts that you created must be using cron. This has nothing to do with anything regarding your "problem". > As it now stands the iPad could steal any of the emails send to the local > machine before > my 'master machine' pulls the report. Well that's because you're using POP not IMAP. You need to understand the difference and choose the one you need for your workflow. > There does not appear to be an option to leave > the mail on the machine for iPad mail configurations. POP works by a client picking up the mail. This isn't what you want. You probably want IMAP. > I think one way to avoid this race condition would be do point the mail > configuration on > the iPad to a account that never receives any mail. There is no race condition. > Does that clear things up for you :) Not really. See above. Also note this has nothing to do with OS X servers per se, it's a iPad configuration issue and mail client account issue. You need a email account somewhere and a proper configuration for it. -d ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dan Shoop [email protected] GoogleVoice: 1-646-402-5293 aim: iWiring twitter: @colonelmode _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
