What do you show in the logs when xmail attempts to send messages to external domains directly? Do the outgoing messages leave the outbox of Outlook?
Bill >---------- >From: Mr Larry Azlin[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 7:41 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [xmail] Problem sending email to comcast.net through XMail > >I have a new installation of XMail 1.17 on SuSE 9.0 Pro (for my home >network), that I've finally gotten to mostly work, and am very happy to >get my email server off of MS - however, there's one small problem - I >have to setup Outlook with "mail.comcast.net" as the SMTP server in >order to successfully send email to an external address. If I setup >Outlook to use the IP of my XMail box as the SMTP server, the email >appears to be sent ok (I've got XMail running w/ full logging, and no >errors are reported), however the email never arrives (I sent a test >message to my Hotmail account). > >The email account in Outlook does NOT have authentication turned on, >nor is it configured for SSL, so I'm at a lose to understand how the >comcast server "knows" whether it's talking to Outlook or XMail - but >apparently it does. > >I'm running Outlook on another box that's on my LAN. I can receive >email just fine, from both local and external sources. I can send >email from Outlook to local addresses when it's configured with the >XMail box as the SMTP server. > >Any ideas as to what's going on, or hints about where I should look? >I've read the online XMail manual, however it's in there I've missed >it. > >Thanks for the help. >Larry > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! >http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in >the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
