Can't send email

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wamacher

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I set up my new domain for email. I can send email to it using MS Outlook, but I can't send email from it to another account. I set up outlook for

incoming mail (POP3) mail.mydomain.com
outgoing mail (SMPT) smpt.mydomain.com

and I checked My server requires authentication just like the direct admin tells you to. I am assuming that I missed something very simple.

wamacher
 
Hello,

Your check that the SMTP server (not SMPT) is smtp.mydomain.com?.

Your change the word SMPT to SMTP, and check. If the problem doesn't solve restart the mail server.


Julian
 
Eureka!

I actually had smtp.mydomain.com correct in Outlook but not in my posting. But using mail.mydomain.com for both incoming and outgoing worked like a champ. Thank you all very much for your responses.

Wayne
 
Probably because DA does not set up pop.mydomain.com and smtp.mydomain.com. You are expected to use mail.mydomain.com.
 
floyd said:
Probably because DA does not set up pop.mydomain.com and smtp.mydomain.com. You are expected to use mail.mydomain.com.
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Actually, if you look at the DNS entries that DA creates by default, you'll notice that it is a little inconsistent here. It does create an entry for pop.mydomain.com, but it does not create one for smtp.mydomain.com.
 
I guess my disclaimer holds true "I could be wrong."

For mail server settings in a mail client you can use any of the A records in the DNS file, assuming that all the A records resolve to the same ip address. The mail client doesn't care what the name is as long as it resolves to the right ip address because its connecting to the ip not the name per se. You can even put in the ip address for the mail server.
 
Hello,

I've added smtp to the dns_a.conf for the next release for the case that users may try and use it.

John
 
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