Mail and LAN

First of all, I would like to thank all of those who answered my previosu querries. It really helped me a lot. It made me appreciate my Apple as i use it everyday. Nothing beats it.
Have problem with mail using my LAN. Am using gmail for my POP mail. when I am at home, I have no problem connecting it to my Dsl but when I am at work, the LAN at the office cannot connect with gmail. Have no problem using the internet at the office. I talked to the administrator of the LAN at the office. He can't offer any solution because he is not familiar with Mac.
would appreciate any help.
thanks

This may be a port blocking issue in—actually, at the edge of—your office. Gmail uses SSL and password authentication on port 995 to communicate with pop.gmail.com, and SSL and password authentication on port 587 to communicate with smtp.gmail.com. If those ports are not enabled, you can't 'punch through' your gateway or firewall to Google's mail servers.
Assuming that it is not a configuration issue on your machine, your attempts should be met with specific error messages that your information technology personnel should understand. The keys are support for SSL, and ports 995 and 587.

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I'm sorry to ask something that I'm sure has been dealt with many times. I've searched all around and found many threads that seem very close, but I guess there's some little difference that always ends up confusing me. I also get confused by what seems to me to be ambiguous terminology. Anyway, I'm pulling my hair out, so I've finally decided to ask for help.
I'm sorry that this post is so long -- I just don't know what bit of info might be important. I'm trying to give a detailed description of my setup so experienced people can give me better advice.
Here's my situation.
EXTERNAL DNS
(1) I've purchased a domain name through my ISP. Let's call it mydomain.tld
(2) This comes with a very rudimentary control panel that allows me to define 10 A records, 10 CNAME records and 10 MX records.
(3) I have defined an A record pointing to my static WAN IP.
(4) I have deifined an MX record pointing to the same static WAN IP.
(5) This seems to be OK, because if I "dig mydomain.com" or "dig MX mydomain.com" I get my static WAN IP.
MY LITTLE NETWORK
(6) The Internet comes into a 4-port router/modem. (192.168.0.x) This is my "Outer LAN"
(7) One port goes to a Mini with SLS -- Say it's on 192.168.0.99
(8) Another port goes to another router (192.168.1.x) This is my "Inner LAN"
(9) I have forwarded port 80 through the outer router to the SLS. That seems to work fine.
(10) I have also forwarded port 25 through the outer router to the SLS. That does not work yet.
The SLS
(11) When I did the initial install, I gave the SLS the name mydomain.private (I some places, Server Admin gives the name mydomain.local ... I don't know why.)
(12) I set up the INTERNAL DNS on the SLS to handle all initial DNS queries from my LANs, with my ISP's DNS as a forwarder.
(13) I set up the DHCP on my routers to assign the internal DNS server on the SLS as the primary DNS, and my ISP's DNS server as the secondary -- so clients on my LANS are looking at the right DNS servers.
(14) DNS seems to work fine on both my LANs.
BEFORE GOING ANY FURTHER:
If anyone sees any problems with what I have done so far -- Please say so.
... and now THE MAIL
(15) I created a few network user accounts on SLS.
(16) Using squirrelmail, they were able to send and receive messages to each other -- using a browser on the SLS machine or a browser on any other computer on the LANs. But this is all resolved through the internal DNS, using mydomain.private
(17) Mail clients (Mail.app) on the LAN can also retrieve these messages. But I can't send mail using a regular mail client ... and squirrelmail only works internally with mydomain.private
Now, I want to get my mail server working normally for sending and receiving mail both within my LAN and over the Internet. And here is where I get confused. There's the EXTERNAL DNS server that clients on the Internet will use to find my server -- and there's the INTERNAL DNS server that clients on my LAN (?and possibly some services on the server itself?) will use. Then there are terms like HOSTNAME and DOMAIN NAME ... and I'm not really very clear as to the disnction (despite, or because of, reading so many articles). I don't know where I should be using mydomain.com and where I should be using mydomain.private)
in the Mail Service Configuration Assistant:
(18) I use mydomain.com for both the Domain Name (Enter the local Internet domain name) and for the Host name (enter the Internet host name of this mail system). These match the A and MX records of my EXTERNAL DNS (ie. what I see on my ISP's control panel).
(19) To try to make things easier to start with, I enabled all options for both secure and non-secure authentication.
(20) I added a host alias mydomain.private
(21) Setup appeared to go fine.
(22) Back on the LAN, "dig MX mydomain.com" gives my static WAN IP
(23) In the outer router, port 25 is forwarded to the SLS
(24) In SLS, in Server Assistant, In DNS, Mail Exchanger is set to mydomain.private -- this works for sending mail within the LAN only.
(25) I tried changing this to mydomain.com, and then nothing worked.
(26) The Nameserver for my primary zone is set to:
Zone: mydomain.private.
Hostname: mydomain.private
When I try to send a message FROM an account on the Internet TO an account on the SLS, I get an error: "Couldn't find a Mail Exchanger or IP address."
When I try to send a message FROM an account on the SLS TO an account on the Internet, the Mail Delivery System returns it to the sender.
Well, that's where I stand now.
I hope people reading will give me some ideas of some other paths to run down, and tests or experiments to try. I'm not afraid of the command line -- but I'm not very experienced with it either -- so maybe there are some useful diagnostic commands that I should know about.
My ISP is not blocking port 80.
Is there some way that I can tell if my ISP is blocking port 25? (Their customer support doesn't know anything.)
Thanks a lot for your attention and patience.
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Oops. Sorry for the delay getting back to you.
Thanks David_x. That was really helpful information. It opened up more questions, but it gave me some good ideas of things to try.
I reinstalled SLS. This time I used my FQDN and accepted the installer's
David_x wrote:
Firstly, remove the secondary from DHCP. Otherwise clients will 'randomly' use info from either inside or outside DNS. You want them to use the internal DNS so use that alone.
I see. So "secondary" doesn't mean "in case the primary fails" -- it means something more like "another one in the pool of possible DNS servers". Doesn't that present a problem in the event that my server is down? Why is this preferred as opposed to clearly defined prioritized list? (Then there is another issue of some services using mDNSResponder in some cases and resolv.conf -- at least that's fairly well documented.)
DNS & Hostname, etc...
If you want to be able to access services from inside and outside your LAN, using the server's hostname (same one inside and out), then set up your internal DNS using your .com domain, same as is used externally.
Okay. Got it. I did that with the reinstall.
DNS is only an "IP lookup" system so you want the hostname inside to resolve to your LAN IP and the hostname outside to resolve to your WAN IP. Forget about the .private stuff - it just confuses things.
Okay. Thanks.
Public MX Record…
(3) I have defined an A record pointing to my static WAN IP.
(4) I have deifined an MX record pointing to the same static WAN IP.
The above may not be what you meant to say but just to check… Your public MX record should resolve to your A record hostname. Then the hostname resolves to an IP address. Your MX record should not be pointing directly to an IP address.
Yes. You are right. That's very good of you to point that out. I did have it pointing to an IP address. (My ISPs simplistic DNS control panel is in Spanish, and I was confused about whether "nombre" referred to a name or number.) I had discovered this through brute force trial and error. This sort of thing was very difficult to test, since I don't have control over many of the DNS parameters (like TTL). That was probably my main problem. Now I can send and receive mail from my server to outside accounts, and from outside accounts to my server.
At the moment, I can't retrieve mail on my server from a computer outside of my network. I suppose that's an authentication problem, or a hostname alias or something. I'll continue trying different things.
Testing Port 25...
To see if port 25 is blocked, get an outside computer and "telnet your-wan-ip 25". If you can switch on logging at the firewall for your port-forwarding rule, all the better as this will be only sure way to see that it is reaching the WAN firewall.
By "logging at the firewall", I suppose you mean at the router? Alright. I still have to try this. From my point of view, this kind of suggestion is great advice.
Instead of using an outside computer, would it be possible to do this sort of checking using an anonymizing proxy? I suppose they usually don't allow telnet.
...any chance this could be tested from my "inner" LAN? (My guess is that it needs to be from a computer that is "upstream" relative to the "outer" router. I'm under the impression that routers handle upstream connections differently than downstream connections, this wouldn't work.)
After that, test at server... open Terminal and enter: "tcpdump -v tcp port 25"
Tcpdump will listen on port 25. When the telnet session gets port-forwarded, you will see a listing of information about the packet received. If you get nothing then the port-forwarding is not working.
So, to make sure I've got this straight:
Turn on logging on port 25 in my outer router.
Go to Terminal on my server.
Start tcpdump listening on port 25.
Take my netbook out to some WiFi hotspot (for example).
Telnet into my server.
Come home and check my logs.
(Maybe I should check out this VPN stuff.)
I'm looking to see that the router forwarded the port correctly.
That's great trouble shooting advice.
Now you'll see how slow I am. I'm reading along, running through all of this in my head, imagining all of my steps ... And only now do I realize that if (as of my latest experiments) my server has been able to receive mail from outer accounts -- then the router must be forwarding things and the mail server is, to some extent, working fine. Okay. I'm still going to go through these steps anyway to see what it should look like.
Server Admin: Domain Name & Hostname...
The Domain Name is just your domain name... e.g., mydomain.com
The Hostname is ideally the same as your external MX hostname... e.g., mail.mydomain.com
The main thing about the Hostname is that this is what your server will report as it's HELO name to other connecting mail servers. Some will check this against the public MX record and use any discrepancy to increase likelihood of spam filtering.
Is there really any reason that a small setup like mine should use "mail.mydomain.com" instead of just "mydomain.com". Since I don't have a separate machine dedicated to mail, maybe it's just an unnecessary complication. I was just copying what I've seen around (configuration for mail and articles I've read).
Under Advanced-> Hosting, tick the "Include server's domain as local host alias".
Okay. What exactly does this do? I understand the words, but not the sense of the phrase. (I find this happening a lot.)
Checking Server Settings…
Use a terminal session to debug any basic configuration issues on the server. The error responses are much more informative than just using a mail client. Open Terminal in a local computer… "telnet server-lan-ip 25" and carry out following…
I could connect with telnet to port 25 on the server:
(1) From a remote computer.
(2) From a local client.
(3) From the server
As we step through the experiment, you will see that we have a few problems.
Server Response:
Trying...
Connected to fqdn.or.ip.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 fqdn.or.ip ESMTP Postfix
#1. Declare where you are sending the email from:
HELO something.name
You can use a real hostname but the mail server has no choice but to accept whatever you type.
Response: 250 servers.hostname
So far, so good.
On remote computers, I couldn't get any further than this.
I'll try again tonight.
#2. Give senders address:
MAIL FROM:<mail@senderdomain>
Response: 250 Ok
I could get this to work for either a local email account or a remote email account, from telnet sessions initiated either on the server itself or on a local client.
#3. Give recipients address:
RCPT TO:<mail@otherdomain>
Response: 250 Ok
Here, I did not get consistent results.
From a local account to a remote account, I could get "Relay access denied".
From a local account to a local account, I could get "Recipient address rejected. Service is unavailable. But this was not consistent. I used three different local accounts, and all could send or receive at one time or another.
#4. Start composing the message:
DATA
Response: 354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>
#5. Type a message. Finish with a single "." on a line on it's own.
Response: 250 Ok: queued as dah,de,da
#6. Close the connection by typing: QUIT
Response:221 Bye... Connection closed by foreign host.
suggestion for hostname.
Were you going to add something else here?
Well, any comments or insights that you might add will be very much appreciated. I'm going to continue sending and receiving and making little tweaks. It's really pretty confusing for a newbie. I thank you a lot for all the time you spent reading and helping me.
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How to remove mails (and attachments) permanently?

Hi!
I just realized my Archive.mbox (~/Library/Mail/V2/Mailboxes) is quite big (8.5GB) and I decided to remove old mails with large attachments.
As I use GMail account via POP3, first I removed mails from the Google account and I freed up about 1.5GB extra space. Later, I searched for mails with attachments in Mail.app, then sorted then and started to remove and emptied the trash. This operation was quite weird as some of them where moved to the Trash folder, some not.
As I was controlling the space of the Mailboxes folder this is what I noticed:
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IMAP Mail and syncing with Server

So I would like to convert from POP mail to IMAP. I have created a new account in Mail and so far I have been able to receive emails no problem. The issue is that sent emails are not being saved and I cannot save drafts. I can send emails fine but I do not have any copies of them. It seems as though mail is having trouble communicating with my server. The option to save sent and drafts IS selected. After speaking to my hosting provider, the issue seemed to be in the PORT on the Advanced tab. It was set by deafult to 143. they suggested I change the port to 110 which is what they support. When I do that and then subsequently send an email, I get a SENT EMAIL folder under the SENT folder in MAIL. Same with drafts and I am able to send emails, but NOW I can;t receive them. They are being delivered to my server as I checked throught my web portal, but Mail wont bring them down.
the whole reason I am switching to IMAP is so that I can sink RECIEVED, SENT and DRAFT emails between my two computers.
Any ideas please?

the issue seemed to be in the PORT on the Advanced tab.
It was set by deafult to 143. they suggested I change
the port to 110 which is what they support.
Well, if you did that, then it should be no surprise that you cannot receive mail now. Change the port back to 143, which is what should be used for an IMAP account. Port 110 is for POP.
After changing the port back to 143, which mailboxes related to the IMAP account do you see in Mail? Where/how do you see them? Do you see a Sent Messages and/or a Drafts mailbox with a generic folder icon (i.e. other than the standard Sent and Drafts mailboxes) anywhere in the mailboxes list in Mail? Do mailboxes on the server appear as subfolders of the account's Inbox?

Mail and IMAP, random problem

I am using Mail.app to connect to an IMAP account. The IMAP account is working fine.
Yesterday morning I started a draft, then quit Mail without saving the draft. Last night I opened Mail and it just gave me the "beach ball" continuously until I force-quit the application.
Since then I have rebooted and tried again but to no avail. Is there a way to reset Mail.app or get it to abandon whatever it is doing in the background? I have a feeling that it is tied to my not saving of the draft and just quitting but I'm not sure.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!

Verify/repair the startup disk (not just permissions), as described here:
The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about?
Go to Apple Menu > System Preferences > Network, choose Network Port Configurations from the Show popup menu, and make sure that the configuration used to connect to Internet appears at the top of the list.
Finally, try launching Mail under the following conditions (you may need to force quit it first if it’s running) and post back with your observations:
1. Holding the Shift key down until the main window appears.
2. With no Internet connection.

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