Forward Mail on 10.4 Server Question

I know you can forward mail to another e-mail address via the workgroup manager in 10.4 Server, but is there any way to forward mail but and leave a copy on the server?
Any help would be much appreciated.

Do you have the OS X firewall running?
No the Firewall service is not running.
Did you fill in the default domain setting in DHCP
config (Windows clients require it)?
It is filled in, in the DNS section. Our mac clients also don't get DHCP addresses.
Did you enable the interface in DHCP config?
Yes, it forces you to pick one interface. I picked "en0" (the choices were en0,en1,and fw0). The ethernet ports on the back of the Xserve G5 are labeled "1" and "2", I was assuming that en0=1 and en1=2.
Are you using netboot on the new server (any
macaddress restrictions?) ?
No, nothing other than Apple File Services and Windows File Services running on these servers.
I wish I had copied and pasted it into my notes, but I did see an error message while troubleshooting at one point that indicated that "DHCP couldn't find an interface to bind to".
Any ideas? In 10.2.8 I just type in the exact same settings, start the service, and it works flawlessly.

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Forward mail to other SMTP server when user is unknown

Hi There,
At this point we are migrating our mailserver from groupwise to Exchange 2007 and at the same point we are connection the new domain in the forrest from a other school. All goes well but know there is a small issue that we have to fix. The Exchange server from the other school send's all message's for @grundel.nl to our new exchange server but there aren't users. There are two sollutions to our problem (I think) but I need to know what exchange can do for me.
1- Our mail goes to the new exchangeserver and when there is a user that the server doesn't know he forwards the mail to our Groupwise server (through SMTP). Is this possible and how can I configure it?
2- The mailserver from the other school sends the mail to Our Groupwise server direct. This is difficult because we are in one forrest and exchange see's that the grundel.nl is configured in sites and servers. Can Exchange bet configured to send mail for our domain to a SMTP server instead of our exchnage server and how can I configure that?
Sollution 1 would be the best so we gen migrate a bit easier.
Thanks,
Marcel
PS: All Exchange server's are 2007 SP2.

and if i am having "recipient not found" for some users ?
i have the same situation and mostly all mail goes normally, except for some users.
It smtp configuration for user is [email protected] but if i send mail to [email protected] (the same site, same server, but i have smart host value for this domain ) - mail deliver to user exchange mailbox locally ([email protected]) and not forwarded
to another host.
Another users goes normally. how can i resolve this problem ?
Be real
really need some help
Be real
This question is already marked as answered so you should start a new thread including as much information as possible.
Cheers, Steve

Edge server not forwarding mail to Hub Transport server

I have an exchange 2010 VM with latest SP hosting around 500 mailboxes. I wanted to take some of the load off this box so I set up another box, loaded Exchange 2010 with the latest service pack and loaded the Edge Transport role on it. I ran the new-edgesubscription
cmdlet, copied the file to the HT server and created a new subscription. I have several sites in AD so I chose the site that corresponded to the IP address of the Exchange server. My problem is there is no mail passing between the servers. Here is what I have
tried so far:
I can telnet to port 25 on both the HT and Edge servers, and port 50636 on edge server.
I can ping NetBIOS and DNS name of both machines from each other.
DNS suffix was added PRIOR to installing edge transport role.
Running get-edgesubscription on HT shows the Site being used, but on Edge site is blank, is this normal?
If I run start-edgesynchronization, I can see the data being replicated to the edge.
If I run test-edgesynchronization from HT, the status is Normal.
If I run get-exchangecertificate and look at the cert thumbprint on both boxes, they are different (from what I read they should be?)
Two Send connectors are created and they are both replicated to the edge, along with accepted domains.
Initially, when I created the subscription, I looked in event viewer on HT and saw Event ID 10104 and 1024, but running start-synchronization seemed to replicate so I thought it may be a one time error. This may be my issue. I have a 3rd party cert on my
HT server to accept mail and allow TLS to mail.mydomain.com. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm ready to pull my hair out. I have reloaded this edge server twice trying to figure out what is going on.
Jeff Green MCSA/MCSE 2003, MCITP 2008

OK, first off, I'm not sure that adding an Edge server is going to reduce any of the load on your mailbox server - all emails bound for your system are going to hit the mailbox server anyway, so unless you have huge amounts of spam and viruses bound for
your system, the savings will be negligible.
That being said, it's not a bad thing to deploy an Edge Server. So let's see if we can figure out why yours isn't working as expected. When you deployed the edge, did you follow all the steps in the following two articles?
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124011(v=exchg.141).aspx
http://exchangeserverpro.com/exchange-2010-install-edge-transport-server/
If you did follow the steps, do you now see the Edge Server in the list of Exchange servers in the EMC under Server Configuration (not one of its subnodes)?

IPhone4 when replying or forwarding mail messages i get a message that says Cannot Send Mail address rejected by the server because it does not allow relaying

When forwarding mail this is what i get
Cannot Send Mail
A copy has been placed in your Outbox. The recipent _________________(email address) was rejected by the server because it does not allow relaying.
Never had this problem before so not sure whats going on. Appreciate any help out there.

Sounds like there is something wrong with your SMTP server. Try going into Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendars>select the email account in question, go to the Outgoing server (SMTP) and check the settings. It may be you do not have a username and password in one of the areas. The phone may say optional in a couple, but it is usually mandatory. You can also try a reset on the device, hold the sleep/wake and home buttons together until you see the Apple logo and then release. If neither of these work, then you will need to delete the account, then delete the SMTP server, then add the account back, ensuring you use your username and password everywhere, even when it says optional.

Hotmail incoming mail server question

What is the Hotmail incoming mail server? Thanks.

What do you mean you want to change that?
Does that not work in your Mail? The incoming server for your Hotmail account in the Mail.app is this: hotmail.com
It should work just fine when you type that in.

Hosting Multiple Mail Domains in SL server on a Mac Mini

So I have been trying to find out the answer to this question, and I keep getting conflicting information, and I am hoping someone here can help me solve this.
We are running two very small business with two different Domains (@company1 & @Company2) Each company has a website, and corporate email. All I want to do is bring all of this in-house onto one Mac Mini server. The calendars and contacts will be shared between the two principle owners of each company (my bosses) as they support each other in there individual business.
The Apple "Genius" says this is not possible, I believe and have been told by a few people and after reading posts on here that it is possible to have multiple domains on one Mac Mini Server. I would like to figure this out quickly as the companies have a need to move off the current email provider as fast as possible due to complications with iOS4 and the iPads.
Any Help from people who are doing this, or know it to be possible or impossible would be greatly appreciated!

This is entirely possible, and supported by the Server Admin user interface for the mail server.
Start with the [Mac OS X Server Mail Services Administration Manual|http://images.apple.com/server/macosx/docs/MailService_Adminv10.6.pdf], page 73
Quoth the Book Of Mail:
A Mail Service Virtual Host
Virtual hosting is a method you can use to host more than one domain name on the same
computer and IP address, with overlapping mail user names.
For example, a mail server can receive mail transfer requests for two domains,
mail.example1.com and mail.example2.com, both of which resolve to the same IP
address. For mail.example1.com, the server delivers mail to “[email protected]”
to a user mailbox for “bob,” while it also delivers mail to “[email protected]” to
a different user mailbox. Virtual hosts are essentially the converse of local host aliases.
One subtlety here is that the domains sharing the same mail server and all co-resident on the IP address will all tend to have the same public host name listed as their MX (mail exchange) server of record in the public DNS. This so that forward and reverse DNS and MX server all line up for the mail server for all the domains involved.

Mail Setup at OSX Server issues

I have several devices (iPad, iPhone, Desktop and Laptop) that access my email accounts (Personal-POP and Business-IMAP accounts) without any issues.
I'd like to use my Mac Mini OSX Server as a main client to all these emails account and collect emails and distribute it at my local network.
Is it possible? I'd like to use all resources from my ISP that can handle with virus, security ... but at the same time I'd like to keep local at this OSX Server all messages that we usually send and receive when we are using local network at office. I read manual several times but is not clear for me if this feature is available.
All suggestions will be welcome.
Edison

OS X Server and most mail servers do not include the ability to collect mail from remote servers, though it is possible to build a somewhat precarious scheme based on forwarding messages from the remote servers involved. Google's mail service and its gmail client do have the ability to retrieve mail from other remote mail servers without resorting to forwarding mail around, but you'd need to integrate something like imapsync or fetchmail to perform this on OS X Server. (Related — my old replies to related questions here in the forums will often mention imapsync, as well.)
In general when running a mail server that's accessible to the Internet, you'll need DNS and also static (fixed) IP from your provider for OS X Server and this is the preferred and most reliable means, this if if you want to send outbound mail through the server, or you'll need to relay your inbound and outbound mail through one of the relay services providers. Static IP and proper DNS can also be a factor when receiving mail from some of the more cautious mail servers around. Failing to have IP and DNS correct mails mail sent from your server can be dropped, and sometimes mail sent to your server will be dropped before being passed to your server.
OS X Server does include some spam- and malware-related capabilities and various Postfix, Amavis, ClamAV and related pieces to keep a lid on most typical spam shenanigans, though you might want additional services or the replacement of the OS X Server mail server with the mail package from Kerio.

Forwarding mail

In Snow Leopard Server, under Workgroup Manager, I used to be able to forward mail to that account to another email address. I no longer see that option. Did they remove this ability or am I missing something?
Thanks.

Ok, another question if I may. The virtual hosting looks like its for virtual domains. I want to forward mail for a few of my users for the domain that I host. For example. Lets say my domain name is domain.com. I want user A B C D to be able to use webmail to get their mail ([email protected], [email protected], etc) but for user F G I want there mail to go to a completely other address outside of my domain.
I tried to setup like the link showed about and I got a error saying I can't use the domain name in 'mydestination" and the virtual list at the same time.
The forward email on the old Lepard server worked fine. I wonder what it actually did when you checked the forward button?
PS: On a side note, most of my users don't have a home directory since im just hosting mail, so the idea of a .forward file won't really work.
Thanks.

How do I move mail from an old server to a new server?

I am rebuilding my server. The new server runs on OS X 10.9.4 with Server 3.1.2. The old server ran OS X 10.9.x and Server 3.x (the exact versions are not known).
Within the folder /Library/Server/Mail, I found the email stores for both systems. I have gone through each folder and identified the 36 character string that serves to identify the user's mailbox and paired each one to a user id on both systems. On the old system, there are multiple mailboxes for some users, and I think it is a result of the users being deleted and recreated: perhaps the system identified the identical name and assumed that the user might be different and therefore created a unique 36 character id for the mail system.
The trick is, I am trying to recover the mail from the old server.
I have attempted to copy the files which are human readable and formatted for SMTP transmission to the new server under the correct mailbox corresponding to the owning user (see screen shots below). The simple act of copying the files has not made these files visible via the IMAP protocol. I have tried restarting the mail service hoping that the Server app would rebuild whatever indexes need to be built so that the mail can be served via IMAP, and that has not worked either.
The question is, how do I get the mail from the old server mail boxes into the new server mailboxes?
This screen shot shows the location of one mail collection at /Library/Server/Mail/Data/mail/[userid]. Mail sits in the "new" folder only for a moment before being processed and put into the "cur" folder. Copying mail from the old server into the "new" folder produces an empty "new" folder, but one can see the files populate briefly before they are moved into the "cur" folder.
The next screen shot shows one email opened in TextEdit. The format should look very familiar. This is the same format that one would use to send SMTP requests to an SMTP server. This particular example happens to be an email from a Gmail account to the PediatricHeartCenter.org domain to test the mail system when the old server was set up. It was sent on 24 Jan 2014 and had text reading "Intended for Mavericks1. -Jared".

On further research, I have learned that OS X Server sets Dovecot to use the MailDir format. The email messages can be removed from the folders and put back, and as long as they were present in the folder to begin with (received by Dovecot originally), they reflect in the Mail.app on client computers. Deleting a file in the "cur" folder causes the file to disappear in Mail.app. Copying the file back into the "cur" folder will cause the file to reappear without any modification of an index file or any other system component, as long as the file was properly formatted by Dovecot to be identifiable to that folder.
According to Dovecot.org's review of MailDir found here (http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Ma,ilboxFormat/Maildir), the file name can be broken into simple pieces: " [unixtimestamp].[process id].[hostName],S=<message size>,W=<virtual message size>/2,[status tags]". The original MailDir++ specification requires the string ":2," to appear after the virtual size, but this file naming format is not legal in Mac OS X, so Dovecot is modified by Apple to use "/2," instead.
The Dovecot's wiki describes inserting new messages as follows:
Mail delivery
Qmail's how a message is delivered page suggests to deliver the mail like this:
Create a unique filename (only "time.pid.host" here, later Maildir spec has been updated to allow more uniqueness identifiers)
Do stat(tmp/<filename>). If the stat() found a file, wait 2 seconds and go back to step 1.
Create and write the message to the tmp/<filename>.
link() it into new/ directory. Although not mentioned here, the link() could again fail if the mail existed in new/ dir. In that case you should probably go back to step 1.
All this trouble is rather pointless. Only the first step is what really guarantees that the mails won't get overwritten, the rest just sounds nice. Even though they might catch a problem once in a while, they give no guaranteed protection and will just as easily pass duplicate filenames through and overwrite existing mails.
Step 2 is pointless because there's a race condition between steps 2 and 3. PID/host combination by itself should already guarantee that it never finds such a file. If it does, something's broken and the stat() check won't help since another process might be doing the same thing at the same time, and you end up writing to the same file in tmp/, causing the mail to get corrupted.
In step 4 the link() would fail if an identical file already existed in the maildir, right? Wrong. The file may already have been moved to cur/ directory, and since it may contain any number of flags by then you can't check with a simple stat() anymore if it exists or not.
Step 2 was pointed out to be useful if clock had moved backwards. However again this doesn't give any actual safety guarantees, because an identical base filename could already exist in cur/. Besides if the system was just rebooted, the file in tmp/ could probably be even overwritten safely (assuming it wasn't already link()ed to new/).
So really, all that's important in not getting mails overwritten in your maildir is the step 1: Always create filenames that are guaranteed to be unique. Forget about the 2 second waits and such that the Qmail's man page talks about.
The process described by the QMail man page referenced above suggests that as long as a file is placed in the "new" folder, that a mail reader can access it. The mail reader then moves the file to the "cur" folder and "cleans up" the "new" folder. This is clearly happening in OS X, because the messages are moving from "new" to "cur", but IMAP is still not serving these foreign messages to the remote readers.
The thought crossed my mind that perhaps it is the fact that the host name does not match, which would cause the failure, however changing the "host" portion of the name from the old-server to the new-server did not fix the issue. Even with the new server name in the file name, the inserted message fails to appear in client Mail applications.
Within the file their is header information that still references the old machine. I'd like to not have to change the email files, because this will violate the integrity of the message. Also, this might take a lot of time or incur risks associated with poor automated processing. The header information should not be referenced by Dovecot, because the wiki page describing MailDir notes that neither Dovecot nor Dovecot's implementation of IMAP refers to the messages header information when moving and serving these mail files.
Unlike when using mbox as mailbox format, where mail headers (for example Status, X-UID, etc.) are used to determine and store meta-data, the mail headers within maildir files are (usually) notused for this purpose by dovecot; neither when mails are created/moved/etc. via IMAP nor when maildirs are placed (e.g. copied or moved in the filesystem) in a mail location (and then "imported" by dovecot). Therefore, it is (usually) not necessary, to strip any such mail headers at the MTA, MDA or LDA (as it is recommended with mbox).
This paragraph leads me to believe that after the mail box is identified that the content of the file becomes irrelevant to the system which manages. This suggests that we should be able to inject messages into a mailbox and have the system serve them as though they had belonged in that mailbox all along. Yet I have not found a way to do this.

How to configure mail on mac mini server?

I have a new Mac Mini Server ver 2.0.23 I have web access and can see my server from the web going to my site but the stopping block is email services.
I have one ip for www and one for mail.mydomain.com and I have all of the firewall ports open (I think on my router 22, 110, 143). Please advice what the poper settings are and how via the web I am to access the email.
Thank you in advance for your consideration.
Jeff

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Mail service in windows2003 server

i have old server has windows 2003 server
i want to apply mails through this server
and i did that but my question
how can i connect between external mail and internal mail
how can i create distribute list
how can i backup mails

Hi Alaa,
The Windows 2003 email service is just a IIS component for email relay\routing SMTP service. You can't have distribution list or backup emails as such. (You need to use Exchange Server for those premium features and control). Its just a SMTP Gateway service.
Typically, the following folder is the queue folder, which can be backedup if you like to:
%SystemDrive%\inetpub\mailroot\queue
SMTP Server Setup (IIS 6.0)
(SMTP) service provided by IIS is a simple component for delivering outgoing
e-mail messages. Delivery of a message is initiated by transferring the message
to a designated SMTP server. Based on the domain name of the recipient e-mail
address, the SMTP server initiates communications with a Domain Name System
(DNS) server, which looks up and then returns the host name of the destination
SMTP server for that domain.
Next, the originating SMTP server communicates with the destination SMTP
server directly through Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
on port 25. If the user name of the recipient e-mail address matches one of the
authorized user accounts on the destination server, the original e-mail message
is transferred to that server, waiting for the recipient to pick up the message
through a client program.
In the case where the originating SMTP server cannot communicate directly
with the destination server, the SMTP service can transfer messages through one
or more intermediate relay SMTP servers. A relay server receives the original
message and then delivers it to the destination server, or redirects it to
another relay server. This process is repeated until the message is delivered or
a designated timeout period passes.
Refernces:
On a Windows Server 2003-based SMTP gateway server
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Quotes and Graphics in Forwarded mail Received as Attachments

When I forward mail, often inline graphics like company logos show up as attachments and are not displayed where they show up on my computer and and often, but not always, several levels of quoted messages show up on the recipients PCs as either text or html file attachments and are also not displayed as quoted text. When the message is forwarded back to me it looks fine on my Macbook Pro. This seems to be a fairly recent problem. It also seems to be kind of hit and miss. At my company everybody complains. I've called up others who were copied the same message and it displayed OK for them. What can I do?
Snow Leopard 10.6.7, Mac Mail 4.5. Messages mostly sent/received via Microsoft Exchange Server.

With recipients using Outlook or Outlook Express, this is common behavior with messages heavily laden with HTML or RTF when forwarded. Probably will work if before sending you click on Format in the menubar and choose Make Plain Text. Assumes the HTML/RTF not critical, of course.
Ernie

Mail aliases in Lion Server

I have two servers that are both running mail. I'd like to be able to have them back each other up. If an email comes into server 1 and server 2 (where account is) is not available, I'd like Server 1 to hold that mail until Server 2 comes back on line.
Previously, in OSX Server, in Workgroup Manager, you could specify a forwarding address for a user and this worked great. In Lion Server, there is no such provision.
So, I edited the /etc/aliases file to add an alias to each such user. I run newaliases and restart the mail server. If I ( with an account on a given server) send an email from mail.app through that server, it properly forwards it to the right server. If there is an incoming email from somewhere else on the internet, then it won't forward it to the correct server but simply rejects it.
I suppose I could go through and create a complete set of duplicate accounts and then go to the web client and specify the redirect through a filter but that would be a total pain.
What am I doing wrong?
J.

Hi
"Previously, in OSX Server, in Workgroup Manager, you could specify a forwarding address for a user and this worked great. In Lion Server, there is no such provision."
If I've understood you correctly that's not strictly true. There's a number of ways you can do this. You could consider using WebMail or the command line:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5032
HTH?
Tony

Forwarding Mail in 10.4

Hi All,
Still kinda new to all of this, and haven't found an answer via searches
We have been using Post.Office to simply forward mail coming into one machine to another e-mail address. So in other words... mail coming in to [email protected] forwards to [email protected]
Is there a way to do this using Server Admin instead?
TIA - Vijay

Okay - I think I have everything set up correctly; however when I test this with a test account the e-mail bounces back with this - any thoughts as to what I missed?:
From: Mail Delivery System <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 10:43:20 -0400 (EDT)
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender
This is the Postfix program at host www.dvinci.com.
I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be
be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.
For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster>
If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the attached returned message.
The Postfix program
<[email protected]>: host
/var/imap/socket/lmtp[/var/imap/socket/lmtp] said: 550-Mailbox unknown.
Either there is no mailbox associated with this 550-name or you do not
have
authorization to see it. 550 5.1.1 User unknown (in reply to RCPT TO
command)
Reporting-MTA: dns; www.dvinci.com
X-Postfix-Queue-ID: CE44A881083
X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822; [email protected]
Arrival-Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 10:43:19 -0400 (EDT)
Final-Recipient: rfc822; [email protected]
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; host
/var/imap/socket/lmtp[/var/imap/socket/lmtp]
said: 550-Mailbox unknown. Either there is no mailbox associated with
this
550-name or you do not have authorization to see it. 550 5.1.1 User
unknown
(in reply to RCPT TO command)

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I have set up a rule to forward mail coming to my @mac account to my aol account as well as to copy it to my incoming mac mail folder. Mail forwarding to aol works fine, but there is no copy in my mac inbox ---- nor is it on the server.
Help please
pwer book g4 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

I've talked to my host, and my forwarders do work, just not to my .mac mail. Forwarding to my Gmail works.
I'm pretty sure it is an Apple problem.

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