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Ludde
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 Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 12:44 pm Post subject: Hi I got the smae forum as here, but this email |
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Failed sending email :: PHP ::
DEBUG MODE
Line : 246
File : C:\Program\Abyss Web Server\htdocs\includes\emailer.php
Is this a fault in Abyss or in the forum, I have no mailserver |
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os17fan
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| Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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If you have no mail server for SMTP access, you can always sign up with http://www.hotpop.com , they offer free SMTP access or you can go the hard way and run your own mail server http://www.argosoft.com they have a free mail server , that error that you are getting is your mailing 8)
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Ludde
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| Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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Hi os17fan
how do i set up a mailserver for my own domain ? |
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CapFusion
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| Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2003 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Ludde wrote: | Hi os17fan
how do i set up a mailserver for my own domain ? |
If you have a MailServer, you will need to setup MX or MXE into your Domain Register. Try setting up a subhost like mail for POP3 and SMTP. Your domain should like something like this > mail.ludde.com <You then can configure your mail client for POP3 and SMTP with mail.ludde.com.
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Ludde
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 12:42 am Post subject: |
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Hi Capfusion
As usual, I donīt think I understand, :roll: what is MX MXE, do you have a link |
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CapFusion
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 1:17 am Post subject: |
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| Ludde wrote: | Hi Capfusion
As usual, I donīt think I understand, :roll: |
First do you have Domain Name?
If you do not, then you need to get one. If there is a free Domain Register somewhere, then you need to find it cause I got no idea. I paid for mine. But if you do, continue reading. Otherwise, stop and turn your MailServer off and uninstall it.
If you answer yes. Goto your Domain Name Register. Make a hostname call mail or whatever you want. At the same time, use MX or MXE for record type. That is it. The rest is to set your mail client like Outlook Express for POP3 / SMTP. If you made your host for MX or MXE to hostnane "mail" and your Domain Name for example call www.ludde.com then can configure it as mail.ludde.com for POP3 and SMTP under Outlook Express "Servers" tap.
And of course I assumed your MailServer is working and can obtain the DNS server from your ISP. Otherwise the above procedure is totally useless.
Summary:
Require:
Domain Name
MailServer
Domain Name setting:
Hostname - make a name for your mail. Example - mail
Address - This area enter your IP
Record Type - Use MX or MXE
MailServer:
Create an mail account - example: ludde@ludde.com or whatever
Mail Client setting like MS Outlook Express:
Add new mail account
Enter your Display Name - Ludde
Enter the Email Address - ludde@ludde.com for example
For POP3 and SMTP - enter mail.ludde.com
Enter Account name - ludde
Password - <whatever you assigned>
That should be it. I believe the above are specific I can get. And of course those above are just example. Please subsitute the correct info.
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Ludde
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 1:36 am Post subject: |
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Thx CapFusion
Yes I have my own domain and I think I get it now :wink: |
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CapFusion
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Ludde wrote: | Thx CapFusion
Yes I have my own domain and I think I get it now :wink: |
Good, it seem you have another toy to play. Now you can create alot different username or divert any spam to another. Heehehe.... You also can set how much / size that you can receive attachment, unlike Hotmail / Yahoo / Juno etc....
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smok3
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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| os17fan wrote: | | run your own mail server http://www.argosoft.com they have a free mail server , that error that you are getting is your mailing 8) |
any guides on how to get that thingy working for dynamic dyndns type of ip? (smtp seems to work properly, i just cant get any mails back...)
edit: nm, got it working.
(so you actually dont need to set any mx records and you dont need static ip) |
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CapFusion
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | any guides on how to get that thingy working for dynamic dyndns type of ip? (smtp seems to work properly, i just cant get any mails back...)
edit: nm, got it working.
(so you actually dont need to set any mx records and you dont need static ip) |
If you referring to a MailServer, then you need the following:
Mailserver
Domain Name
MX or MXE (setting from Domain Name register).
Your Domain Name need to point to your DNS service (like dynamic dyndns you mention). Since your Domain is dependent to your DNS service.
Domain Name is just a traffic cop. It will direct where to link to. If you Dynamic IP keep on changing, it will not find it.
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smok3
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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| CapFusion wrote: | If you referring to a MailServer, then you need the following:
Mailserver
Domain Name
MX or MXE
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for basic setup it looks like the 1st two will do, I dont understand exactly what mx records are for, but as explained here:
http://www.dyndns.org/support/kb/mxrecords.html
they point to a specific machine, so if the web and mail server are on the same ip you dont really need to set up those. |
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | for basic setup it looks like the 1st two will do, I dont understand exactly what mx records are for, but as explained here:
http://www.dyndns.org/support/kb/mxrecords.html
they point to a specific machine, so if the web and mail server are on the same ip you dont really need to set up those. |
Ok, you can try that way and tell me the result. I want to know it too since I do not have or use any DNS service.
For MX or MXE, this record indicate that it is a mail type so it will use the corresponding PORT that your MailServer is listen to. When I type in your Domain (ie. ... www.example.com). it will try to connect to port 80 or until your router redirect to the correct port (depanding on how you setup or configure your router / firewall). Unless, you set your Mailserver to PORT 80 for both POP3 and SMTP. Then webserver and Mailserver will listen to that same port. This may cause problem and security issue.
General speaking, you do not really need to set MX or MXE. But you have to do something to accomplish this. That I do not know at this time. I will check from my friend that have done this way. I will post if have the answer.
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Correction on my part.
Ooops.... MX and MXE is just mail exchange for relay and not regarding about type of link. It is does nothing to do with port and such.
Mail Exchange record is part of the zone file and is used to designate which mail server machine should process email for a specific domain.
Try the following:
To setup the email address to user@domain.com instead of user@hostname.domain.com.
We've found that many new web sites are using the email address of the form user@hostname.domain.com, for example webmaster@www.mycompany.com. While there is nothing wrong about this, it certainly doesn't look professional either, and it is usually a sign that you're new into the networking field.
There are two things to change in order to use the mail address of the form user@domain.com: adding the MX (Mail Exchange) record of your domain to the DNS (Domain Name Service) database, and adding the domain name to the mail server's configuration file so that it doesn't reject mail messages addressed to user@domain.com.
MX Record
The mapping from the name of a domain or a host to an IP address is done by a mechanism called the DNS. The DNS database is a file that contains such mappings, and the host which keeps this database is called the DNS server. In the following example, we assume that one of your hosts is running the primary DNS server for your domain, and you have a root access to that host. If the primary DNS is provided by the Internet Service Provider (ISP), then you should contact them to update the DNS record as explained in the following example.
Each mapping from a name to an IP address is called a record. There are several types of records, the most popular of which is the A records; this is the host name to an IP address mapping. Another type is called the MX record, short for Mail Exchange. When the mail server program such as sendmail.cf processes an email message, it first looks for this record of the destination address. In other words, the sendmail program first tries to resolve the MX record, not the A record.
In the master DNS database file, add an MX record for the domain you want to receive the email. You can add just one line, as in the following:
MX 10 mailhost
The above example specifies that the host with the name mailhost is designated to receive all the mail addressed to this domain. If the domain name is mydomain.com, any mail message with the address user@mydomain.com will now be delivered to user@mailhost.mydomain.com.
You can also set up multiple MX records, as in the following:
MX 10 mailhost
MX 100 mailhost.king.co.kr.
MX 200 www.netkorea.com.
The reason for setting up multiple MX records is for a reliable mail delivery. If the primary mail server is down, the mail message will be temporaily sent to another mail server designated by the MX record. In the above example, if the primary mail server mailhost.mycomain.com does not respond, a delivery will be attempted to the host mailhost.king.co.kr. If that host is also down, then another attemp to the host www.netkorea.com will be made. The number associated with each MX record specifies the priority of the mail servers.
sendmail.cf
Once the MX record is added to your DNS database, the next step is telling the mail server program on the mail server host that you want to receive mail messages destined to user@domain.com. This is necessary since most mail server programs accept only the messages destined to user@host.domain.com, and refuses everything else.
The most popular mail server program is sendmail. The configuration file for sendmail is /etc/sendmail.cf. In this file, add the following line:
Cw mydomain.com
This line specifies that mail messages sent to user@mydomain.com should be accepted on this host. You need to do this only on the host which will be the final destination of the mail messages. In the previous example of MX records, we set up three mail servers. However, the user accounts are only on the host mailhost.mydomain.com, and the other two are just the backup machines that will hold the messages temporaily. When a message is delivered to a backup host, it will be held in the system spool until the host tries forwarding it to the final destination host (mailhost.mydomain.com). Therefore, the modification to /etc/sendmail.cf should be made only on mailhost.domain.com, and not on the other two hosts. Usually, you will use the mail hosts of your Internet Service Provider (ISP) for the backups, so you won't have the access to those machines anyway.
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Ludde
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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Hi
Now I got this far thet I can send email from argosoft mailserver, but when trying to reply i get the mail back, and ir tells my it is wrong, any idea what Iīve done |
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CapFusion
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Ludde wrote: | Hi
Now I got this far thet I can send email from argosoft mailserver, but when trying to reply i get the mail back, and ir tells my it is wrong, any idea what Iīve done |
Have you read my last previous message? I believe that is specific I can get or atleast regarding how to make it work or setup.
Does your Mailserver have DNS request test and Query test? It can be a setting in your MailServer.
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smok3
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| Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2003 2:15 pm Post subject: |
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| CapFusion wrote: | | Quote: | for basic setup it looks like the 1st two will do, I dont understand exactly what mx records are for, but as explained here:
http://www.dyndns.org/support/kb/mxrecords.html
they point to a specific machine, so if the web and mail server are on the same ip you dont really need to set up those. |
Ok, you can try that way and tell me the result. I want to know it too since I do not have or use any DNS service. |
yeah well, i was digging into this some time, but as it seems only few hosts will send mail to such a home server corectly, for example when sending from @yahoo i had no problems and the mail was delivered as it should, but any other host i tryed had problems..., still i dont think this is due to the lack of mx records, it is more likely about banning the use of the leased adls line (at least thats what i was told). About ports, i think pop3 is using port 25 by default, so i dont see where is there a problem with the webserver? (i just put the webmail server to port 81..) |
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CapFusion
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| Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2003 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | yeah well, i was digging into this some time, but as it seems only few hosts will send mail to such a home server corectly, for example when sending from @yahoo i had no problems and the mail was delivered as it should, but any other host i tryed had problems..., still i dont think this is due to the lack of mx records, it is more likely about banning the use of the leased adls line (at least thats what i was told). About ports, i think pop3 is using port 25 by default, so i dont see where is there a problem with the webserver? (i just put the webmail server to port 81..) |
This are the following default:
SMTP = 25
SMTP = 366
POP3 = 110
IMAP = 143
SMTP SSL = 465
POP3 SSL = 995
IMAP SSL = 993
The only guess I can think of is PORT block but if the port is change to something else, then I would assume it should have work. The Domain Name or DNS server should have direct to your MailServer where your IP is located. Your Router should be open to the new MailServer port that you have assign (default PORT changed).
Webmail should be PORT 80.
I do not see any other setting or configuration other than from MailServer, Domain Name and Client.
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| Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 8:39 am Post subject: |
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| yeah, port 110 for pop3..., well i dont think it is a port problem as in that case mail wouldnt arrive from anywhere i guess? |
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| Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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| smok3 wrote: | | yeah, port 110 for pop3..., well i dont think it is a port problem as in that case mail wouldnt arrive from anywhere i guess? |
Your Domain should act as a relay to route your mail. I have two mailhost server running for each Domain and seem to be working flawlessly.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2003 9:19 pm Post subject: Problems with PHBB forums... |
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Ludde, I hope you got your mail server running.
As for the original question regarding phpBB forums...
Many people are having the same error messages when installing the latest version of phpBB (2.0.5).
Earlier versions seem to run fine (2.0.4 and older).
Unfortunately, phpBB.com doesn't offer the older versions on their Downloads page.
But, phpBBHacks.com does have the earlier versions available HERE.
I hope this helps other people that have the same problem with phpBB.
Overall, it's a very great forum with lots of features and customization.
It's on my site and I like it alot. |
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| Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2003 1:10 am Post subject: |
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So far, ludde do not seem to be report back so I assumed it maybe ok.
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Ludde
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| Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2003 1:23 am Post subject: |
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| Hi everybody, I downloaded the phpbb plus, and that works great, but for the mailserver, I only got it to send emails, but I couldnīt send back, I still wondering where i got wrong, I have read all your post now and I still donīt get it, maybe my brain getting old !! |
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| Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Ludde wrote: | | Hi everybody, I downloaded the phpbb plus, and that works great, but for the mailserver, I only got it to send emails, but I couldnīt send back, I still wondering where i got wrong, I have read all your post now and I still donīt get it, maybe my brain getting old !! |
Humm.... I am running out of idea and option.
It pretty simple as long your MailServer is set correctly and those port are open accordingly.
Is there any test or query feature on that mailserver? The test will try send and receive mail to itself. If there any problem, it will note the cause or whatever.
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