I am currently testing Scalix 10.1 Small Busines Edition on Suse 10 running as a Vmware virtual machine. The installation went well. I am very impressed with how good the Scalix installer is. The documentation for the Evaluation Guide is also pretty good.
My only problem at first was that the file /var/opt/scalix/sys/smtpd.cfg was missing the following line (perhaps a small bug on the scalix installer):
RELAY accept .mydomain.dyndns.org
After that I just had to stop and start the smtpd (as suggested in another post) :
omoff -d 0 smtpd
omon smtpd
I have been able to successfuly use the SWA to send e-mails from my scalix accounts to other scalix accounts and to other domains (e.g. @yahoo.com)
My problem is that the only replies that arrive to the scalix mail server are those from the scalix accounts, but not from other domains.
I have already got a answer from a machine outside my LAN to the following commands:
telnet mydomain.dyndns.org 25
telnet mydomaindyndns.org 110
So, I know that the server is listening and that the NAT/Port Forwarding is working. Also I had the firewall on the server disabled, just in case.
I set the Mail Exchanger field on my site on dyndns.org with the following value (canonical name):
mydomain.dyndns.org.
Then I did a nslookup and I got the following answer for the MX record:
> set type=MX
> mydomain.dyndns.org
Server: dns.iinet.net.au
Address: 203.0.178.191
Non-authoritative answer:
mydomain.dyndns.org MX preference = 10, mail exchanger = mydomain.dyndns.org
dyndns.org nameserver = ns1.dyndns.org
dyndns.org nameserver = ns2.dyndns.org
dyndns.org nameserver = ns3.dyndns.org
dyndns.org nameserver = ns4.dyndns.org
dyndns.org nameserver = ns5.dyndns.org
ns1.dyndns.org internet address = 63.208.196.90
ns2.dyndns.org internet address = 204.13.249.81
ns3.dyndns.org internet address = 204.13.250.81
ns4.dyndns.org internet address = 213.155.150.205
ns5.dyndns.org internet address = 63.170.10.81
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Everything looks good, from what I have read so far.
Update I didn't do anything else, but all the messages I thought lost have just arrived. I guess it was a matter of time until the DNS server propagated the new settngs.
I will leave the post anyway, in case someone else has similar issues.
I am not sure, which ports should I open on my firewall to be able to get access from SWA and an Outlook Client outside the LAN. 25, 110 and 143? All of them?
Thanks,
Pedro