Novell Netmail 3.1 nmap issues

I followed your commands and verified (to the best of my ability) that the install process was followed.  I can use the webaccess and read all my mail off of my current (and soon to be removed) sun mail server.  The problem is when I try to reply or send a new message, it says that the message was sent, but never gets to the end user.  I can look in my queue and see 51 messages just sitting there.  How do I tell it to send those messages to my outbound mail server?

Thanks again for all of your help.

madcrb

This begins to sound like a DNS problem.  NetMail uses it's own settings for DNS servers, and ignores the host server's SYS:ETC\RESOLV.CFG file

Using NWADMIN,  go to the properties of the messaging server (you'll need to right click on it and choose "details").  In the "resolvers" block, make sure there is the addresses of at least 2 valid DNS servers.    Write them down.

After checking that (and restarting NetMail with IMS UNLOAD / IMS is you made changes), at the console of the server hosting NetMail do a PING A.B.C.D (replacing a.b.c.d with the IP address of the DNS servers) to make sure they are reachable by the NetMail server.

Finally, check that there's not a firewall blocking NetMail's access to the outside world.

HTH

How do I have the netmail server hand all the mail traffic off to the firewall?  Where is the setting to tell it to send all smtp (mail) traffic to a specific host?


thanks,

Unless the firewall is also an SMTP or mail server, you don't really want to have your Netmail server hand mail over to it.

Rather, you need to poke a hole through the firewall telling it that it's OK for the NetMail server to make outbound connections to other machines on port 25, and that it's ok for other server to connect to the NetMail server on port 25.

The firewall handles all my smtp traffic.  But i can't figure out where to point the netmail server.  Does it automatically use the default gateway?

thanks

If your fire wall doubles as an SMTP server, then you can tell NetMail to use it to transmit all outgoing messages.  

Using NWADMIN, go to "Internet Services"/ "Messaging Server"/ "SMTP Agent"/ "Options".  Put a check mark in the "Use Relay Host" option, and put the private IP address of your firewall in the box.  Save the settings, then unload/reload SMTPD at the console.

If the firewall is not an SMTP server,  then you'll need to tell it that it's OK for the NetMail server to perfom DNS queries and to open connections on port 25.

HTH