only sxadmin can receive mail

[Xiph]

Hi all.

I successfully installed a Scalix community server on Suse 9.3, but now only the sxadmin user can send and receive mail. All other users I created can only send mails out, but if I reply to this messages from public internet, i get a message: Mail delivery failure, User unknown (in reply to RCPT TO command).

Do I need to create a local user on the Suse machine in addition to the Scalix mailbox? Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

[florian]

this sounds a little like you're not talking to the Scalix smtp relay.

Try "telnet scalix-server-hostname 25" from a machine on your network. If it responds with something like "sendmail", your sendmail daemon is configured to listen externally. If it responds with "Scalix SMTP Relay", everything here is fine. I assume you're looking at sendmail.

To fix this, you'll need to change your /etc/sysconfig/mail or /etc/sysconfig/sendmail file, disable sendmail as an external listener, but keep the daemon running anyway, then restart your machine and you should be all right.

The reason why sxadmin is working is probably that sxadmin has a Internet Address based on the hostname, which sendmail might be configured to accept and forward into Scalix.

-- Hope this helps,
Florian.