Questions about scalix

[kool_kid]

Thanks will check that

[kool_kid]

Hey, anyone has experience with adding MX records and etc?

Currently i have setup the scalix server to my registered domain name, my website is hosted on godaddy, and my scalix machine is inside the network using a local ip, i did the port forward from router to my machine eg:- port 80,389,143,25 etc i can access my scalix machine using the ISP IP set in the router. Now I went to admin console in godaddy and changed the MX record's "Goes to" field to the ip of my router (ISP IP), now thinking that the setting should work i entered the Domain name(the one setup in my scalix box) it goes this way email.domain.com but i cudnt view the server, why is it so?

[kanderson]

DNS changes like that usually take a while to become effective. Try it again tomorrow.

If you want to check it now, use dig, as follows...

dig -tMX <your.domain.com> @<ip.address.of.godaddy's.DNS.servers.>

To find the IP of godaddy's name servers, you can use:

dig -tNS <your.domain.com>

So for me, I'd use:

dig -tMX digital-adrenaline.com @ns1.xname.org

And it would answer with whatever was currently set up for me. Note that I no longer use xname as I've has reliability issues. It costs me $1 per year to host DNS with SpiritDomains, and they've been great.

Kev.

[kool_kid]

do i need to make any other changes apart from changing MX part, like email smtp etc look in image those are default entries.

[kanderson]

Ok, from what I can see, you have email.scholarsempire.com as a real A record. That will be correct. Email resolves to an IP address.

From there, you have a bunch of pointer records.

I suspect what you want, is to have them all point at email.scholarsempire.com. That way, they go to the IP defined in the A record. What you have though is that they all point at something on secureserver.net. I don't know for sure, but I suspect this is a mail hosting solution. Mail will get delivered, but not to email/scholarsempire.com, which is where I suspect you want it.

So what you should do, if I'm understanding this correctly, is to point all of the cnames (imap, mail, email, pop, smtp, webmail, e, and mobilemail) at mail.scholarsempire.com. I suspect that's what you're after.

That is assuming all of those aliases should resolve to 208.109.181.32.

Kev.

[kool_kid]

okay thanks i will try em

[kool_kid]

okay i sent/receive the mail but i don't get the web access its again redirecting me to the default mail server used by that hosting site, still my web access goes like this scholarsempire.com/webmail in my scalix server i.e. i haven't done the redirection.

[kanderson]

rather than scholarsempire.com/webmail. Try email.scholarsempire.com/webmail.

If that works, then the domain itself doesn't point at the correct place.

Is the email going through your Scalix box? Or is it just relaying through the hosted one? use auditing to check. (omconfaud sr 13 ld 13 unix 13) and then (tail -f /var/opt/scalix/??/s/logs/audit) so you can watch email arriving and leaving. When you're sure it's working right, MAKE SURE to turn auditing off with omconfaud sr 0 ld 0 unix 0

Thanks
Kev.

[kool_kid]

My emails are going directly to Scalix box, when i enter email.scholarsempire.com/webmail it doesnt work even then.

[kool_kid]

yes, but setup for features like this is pretty advanced and requires complex filtering rules to be created.

see description of service router rules in the documentaiton for details.

In which document can i find the description of service router, cuz i searched it and cudnt find it and if it isnt mentioned in document where in website is it mentioned? can anyone help ,e on this please

[kool_kid]

Hey,

Please help me with this one, i ahve seen clamav as anti-virus and spamassassin as anti-spam, now that i read about MailWasher and Amavisd im confused whether i should install Amavisd or clamav & spamassassin or should I go for Mailwasher as my anti-spam tool, if i install Mailwasher can i install Amavisd for anti-virus? help me out wqith this one please.

[kanderson]

My experiences with Maillwasher have been far less positive than with Amavis/Spamassassin. It seems to work fine initially, but then it just falls apart for no reason. I won't install it again.

Amavis/Spamassassin works OK. It seems to get an OK percentage of the spam, but it can put a noticeable load on the server if you have a lot of users.

Kev.

[les]

Hey,

Please help me with this one, i ahve seen clamav as anti-virus and spamassassin as anti-spam, now that i read about MailWasher and Amavisd im confused whether i should install Amavisd or clamav & spamassassin or should I go for Mailwasher as my anti-spam tool, if i install Mailwasher can i install Amavisd for anti-virus? help me out wqith this one please.

Any filter package you use will ultimately use spamassassin or clamav or both.

Whether you use amavisd or mailwasher is based on how complicated you want your life to be or whether you want a decent front-end with quarantine and reporting etc.

For me the simplest option is.....

clamav integrated into sendmail via clamav-milter
spamasssassin integrated into sendmail via spamass-milter

With that i get no reporting or quarantine, but my end users dont or cant control it. Thus i just tag spam and use server side rule to filter into Junk Folders.

That works really well.

I have used amavisd in the past before (not with scalix), and found it to work well, but it is a beast.
I have never user MailWasher.

There are plenty of howto's on the scalix wiki site for setting up different filtering scenarios.

Hope that helps.

[kool_kid]

Yep that helped me thanks, now i want to create a "junk folder" and then automatically send all spam mails to this folder, how can i achieve this?

[kool_kid]

Yep that helped me thanks, now i want to create a "junk folder" and then automatically send all spam mails to this folder, how can i achieve this?

Another thing how do i use the archiving feature in Enterperise Edition?