On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Mr Larry Azlin wrote: > 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.
They probably block outbound SMTP traffic but the one directed to their relay server. You need to use DefaultSMTPGateways (see doc). - Davide - 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]
