Re: [cobalt-users] Qube2 Bcc: issues.....con't.

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:37 AM 1/5/00  Jason Aspinall wrote:

> Indeed, we still use Demon (via POP3 collection) for our email, although
> that is 'soon' to be moved to BT.

I'm not 100% sure, but I believe BT offers you the envelope addressee 
information in a header.

Personally I'd much rather have SMTP collection than POP3 collection.

> I can pick up mail from Demon in either smtp or pop3 flavour.  The problem I
> see, is configuring the Qube2 to pick mail up from an smtp server as opposed
> to the pop3 server it wants to see :|  I've tried entering the smtp info on
> the admin webpage, but complains that if cannot get authenticated, then
> reverts the mail server address back to the pop3 one.

I don't know anything about the Qube2, I'm afraid, but if the RaQ is "real" 
Linux, and if the sendmail daemon always runs in the background, you 
shouldn't have to do anything at all to get your email via smtp.

Sendmail, in it's default configuration, always receives SMTP mail.  If 
your Qube2 is setup for the same domain name as you get mail at, it won't 
be refused by Sendmail's default configuration.  If not, you have to 
configure Sendmail to receive mail for the domain you get mail at from Demon.

We have a customer who gets mail at <anything@xxxxxxxxxxx>.  Our server 
just forwards the mail to <anything@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.  When he dials 
in, demon automatically sends him his mail via smtp.  His Windows system 
picks up the mail using the Mailtraq server for Windows 
(<www.mailtraqna.com>, but warning: this is a plug; it's our product 
<smile>) without any special configuration.

If you need more help, try joining the Linux List hosted by Mitch Bromage 
(mitch is a woman, btw); write to <mailserver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> with the 
line: "subscribe Linux-List" (without the quotes) in the body of your 
email.  That list is quite inactive; maybe ten or fifteen messages a month 
at most these days; but members use demon for dialup with linux all the 
time.  I'm sure they can help.

(The list is NOT hosted on majordomo, btw; it's hosted on Mailtraq, on 
Windows.)

> I'm trying to get in touch with Demon to see if they can temporarily change
> their configs for our mailbox, so that the envelope-to header is not
> stripped.  Getting through on their helpdesk number is like getting the
> proverbial from a rocking horse :|

When you do get through, they'll just tell you to use SMTP to get mail, I 
bet <smile>.

If you insist on using POP3 to get mail (really a lousy idea, in my humble 
opinion), I think BT offers you this functionality; maybe you can just 
hurry the switch.

We're already doing hosting and forwarding for some UK companies using 
demon, but we don't offer connectivity outside of the USA (yet).

Jeff

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