Re: OT Mail Problems

["paul_watkin <paul_watkin@xxxxxxx>" <paul_watkin@xxxxxxx>]

THANX FOR YOUR REPLY IAN, A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS

> Something to consider when you get your ADSL:
> 
> I have found the best trade-off with reliability/speed etc seems to
be to
> set your domain's primary MX record to your ADSL line's static IP 
so, by
> default, email comes in to your SME Server's SMTP Server directly,
however,
> for reliability, you should set a Secondary, lower priority MX 
record to
> point at your exisiting hoster..
> 
> So, if your ADSL line is down for a bit/disconnected or your server
is
> powered off, your email should go to your hoster, and you can pick
up via
> POP3 whenever you com back online..

UNDERSTAND THE THEORY OF WHAT YOU ARE SAYING, I ASSUME I CONTACT 
XCALIBRE ON THIS AND THEY WILL DO THE NECESSARY?? THE SUPPLIER OF THE 
ADSL STILL HASN'T CONFIRMED IF IT WILL BE STATIC OR DYNAMIC IP CAN 
THIS WORK IN CONJUNCTION WITH DYNDNS ETC??
> 
> As for now, if outlook can't talk IMAP to your SME box, I'm 
wondering, have
> you changed Outlook from Internet Email only to Corporate and 
Workgroup? I
> seem to recall you had to do that to make it fly..

I WAS LOOKING LAST NIGHT FOR SOMETHING TO DO THIS BUT SOME REASON 
HELP WAS KNACKERED, HOWEVER CHECKING ON MY WORK LAPTOP USING THE 
MAGIC WORDS CORPORATE AND WORKGROUP TELLS ME HOW TO DO IT
> 
> The other thing is, use a specifically internal name for your 
server, like
> just "mail" rather than the Fully qualified domain name, it
reduces 
the risk
> of confusion, or wacky routing ;)

THE SME BOX HAS IT'S OWN SPECIFIC NAME (SMESERVER, PREDICTABLY :-)) 
WHICH CAN BE USED FOR INTERNAL ACCESS TO IT, HOWEVER IT ALSO HAS THE 
FULLY QUALIFIED DOMAIN NAME SPECIFIED

CHEERS WILL HAVE PLAY WHEN I GET HOME THIS EVENING

PAUL
> 
> Ian.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Lucas [mailto:tony@x...]
> Sent: 20 January 2003 11:39
> To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] OT Mail Problems
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: paul_watkin <paul_watkin@n...>
> > [mailto:paul_watkin@n...]
> > Sent: 20 January 2003 11:25
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: [ukha_d] OT Mail Problems
> >
> >
> > Hope somebody can help me here.
> >
> <snip lots of info on the problem>
> > Anyone got any ideas what is going wrong?? I have a feeling
that
> > Outlook is getting confused between the mail server at
Xcalibre
> > (mail.mydomain.co.uk) and the mail server on the SME box
> > (mail.mydomain.co.uk) how do I force outlook to look only within
the
> > local network for the server on the SME box
> >
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> Not sure exactly what your problem might be, but just to point
out,
> you're picking mail up from us on pop3.yourdomain.co.uk, not
> mail.yourdomain.co.uk, if that makes any difference....
> 
> If I can be of assistance let me know though.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tony Lucas
> Chief Technical Officer
> XCalibre Communications Ltd
> <http://www.xcalibre.co.uk>
> 
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