No sendmail service in server/services

[Clemens]

Hello,

I´m not sure if this question belongs in here or the server section, but here it goes:

I´ve installed Scalix CE and internally mail sending and receiving, as well as web access and the admin console work fine.

However when I am trying to send mail to external domains, the web interface pops up with a message informing me that the email could not be send.

Right, I thought this would be a sendmail issue so went to check it in the admin console.
Now the confusing bit: In the area "Server" it does not list sendmail anywhere! I´ve seen it in the online demo so I´m sure it should be there... ;-)

I haven´t worked out any of my other sending issues yet because I believe that this would be the correct place to start - get scalix to actually recognise that sendmail is there!

So, if anyone could help me I would be happy! And please don´t be too hard on me, I´m quite new to Linux as a whole!

By the way: sendmail is installed and running.
System is Suse 9.3.

Thanks for your help!
Clemens

[ScalixSupport]

I'll try to address your questions...

The first is to be able to send mail to external domains. This is because the SMTP Relay is blocking any outgoing message as a relay attempt. The most common cause of this is that you do not have reverse DNS setup correctly to be able to resolve the IP address of your server back to a hostname. The quickest solution is to add the line

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RELAY accept xx.xx.xx.xx

(where xx.xx.xx.xx is the IP address of your SWA server. Typically this will be the same as your Scalix server) to /var/opt/scalix/sys/smtpd.cfg and restart the SMTP Relay process

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omoff -d0 smtpd
omon smtpd

The second question you are asking is about sendmail. I believe that you are referring to mention of the Sendmail Interface. This is actually the Scalix-to-Scalix transport interface. The outgoing Unix gateway is called the Internet gateway. Confusing, I know. The reason why you don't see Sendmail Interface is that it is not enabled for the Community Edition as CE is a single-server installation.

Cheers

Dave

[Clemens]

This worked out nicely, thank you very much! 8)

Clemens