Re: [cobalt-users] very basic email setup

[James Dory <engineer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

First off, thanks much Bruce. You have saved me a lot of work. I still 
have some problems though.

Bruce Timberlake wrote:

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> > and under the Site Management/Site Settings there is a place to add
> > email server aliases.
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> Like web, the RaQ will default to accepting email for 
> user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  Nobody sends mail like that, so you'd want 
> to enter 'nomealaska.org' as an email server alias, so mail to 
> user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx will work.  (Same rules as web alias apply for 
> multiple domain handling).
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I had a 'doh' moment here. I had nomealaska.org entered under site 
settings/email aliases but when I tried entering nomealaska.org under 
control panel/email parameters/hosts & domains, then hitting save, it 
wouldn't take when I would return to that page to check.. Turns out I 
wasn't again hitting Save Changes under the Control Panel save changes.


> > Here's what's happening:  I set up an 8 letter username and then a
> > full name email alias for a user. I couldn't get it to work with
> > the alias until I added it in the virtualusertable.
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> Hm. This should happen automatically when you 'save' the user...
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I just tried adding another user (user-no3) and get the following errors 
(without editing the vtable):

Jan 27 13:26:17 www sendmail[31161]: h0RMQCL31161: from=<me@xxxxxxx>, 
size=481, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<somenumber-mac?@gci.net>, 
proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=mmp-2.gci.net [208.138.130.81]

Jan 27 13:26:28 www sendmail[31163]: h0RMQCL31161: 
to=<user-no3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, delay=00:00:14, xdelay=00:00:11, 
mailer=relay, pri=30481, relay=smtp.gci.net [208.138.130.85], dsn=2.0.0, 
stat=Sent (Message received: H9E90N02.AXA)

Jan 27 13:26:42 www sendmail[31165]: h0RMQdL31165: ruleset=check_rcpt, 
arg1=<user-no3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, relay=mmp-1.gci.net 
[208.138.130.80], reject=550 5.7.1 <user-no3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>... 
Relaying denied.  Please check your mail first or restart your mail session.


So I'm still missing something.

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> > I've got our outgoing SMTP server set to use smtp.gci.net on our PC
> > email programs. 
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> So smtp.gci.net is set as your 'smart relay server'??

No. I set this and it was like the dam breaking as I was tailing my 
maillog. All the returned mail error messages from the test messages I 
had sent. Maybe this will help. User-no2 is now working, the one I had 
manually edited in the virtualusertable.

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>  Email server alias and domain 
> alias should both be 'nomealaska.org'
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> Bruce Timberlake
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They are now. Would I need mail.nomealaska.org under email aliases if 
I'm using that as incoming server name?

Thanks again,

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Jim Dory.