We have a mail server for our students that allows them webmail access using Squirrelmail. Our student email addresses are in the form of student@students.kcai.edu. We have appropriate DNS records for mail to get to the server, but due to some network constraints, we had to create an additional DNS name for the webmail access. The off campus address for this access is squirrelmail.kcai.edu. When students log in from off campus and send mail through Squirrelmail, their messages appear to be coming from squirrelmail.kcai.edu. For example a message sent from off campus would appear as student@squirrelmail.kcai.edu instead of student@students.kcai.edu. In the Mail configuration under Server Manager on the OSX server, the server name is specified as students.kcai.edu. Why is the domain portion of their addresses getting rewritten to match the external DNS name that they used to access the Squirrelmail page? Shouldn't the server sent mail from it's configured hostname? If anyone has any advice, resources, tips, tricks or answers, I'd love to hear them. Thanks in advance. Rob
Rob Becker wrote:
We have a mail server for our students that allows them webmail access using Squirrelmail. Our student email addresses are in the form of student@students.kcai.edu. We have appropriate DNS records for mail to get to the server, but due to some network constraints, we had to create an additional DNS name for the webmail access. The off campus address for this access is squirrelmail.kcai.edu. When students log in from off campus and send mail through Squirrelmail, their messages appear to be coming from squirrelmail.kcai.edu. For example a message sent from off campus would appear as student@squirrelmail.kcai.edu instead of student@students.kcai.edu. In the Mail configuration under Server Manager on the OSX server, the server name is specified as students.kcai.edu. Why is the domain portion of their addresses getting rewritten to match the external DNS name that they used to access the Squirrelmail page? Shouldn't the server sent mail from it's configured hostname? If anyone has any advice, resources, tips, tricks or answers, I'd love to hear them. Thanks in advance. Rob
Do both DNS names point to the same machine? You'll want to take a look at the $imapServerAddress variable in the squirrelmail config. I've found customers don't like typing in the word squirrel, so I've added aliases called "webmail".
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On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Rob Becker wrote:
Shouldn't the server sent mail from it's configured hostname?
I don't think that this is a mailer issue, I think it's probably a squirrelmail issue. I have no OSX specific advice, but:
In squirrelmail's config.php (maybe /etc/squirrelmail/config.php? BSD puts some packages in /opt I believe) check the value of $domain.
If you want everything to be user@students.kcai.edu, set
$domain = 'students.kcai.edu';
or maybe
$domain = implode('', file('/etc/hostname'));
The real question is, how does squirelmail know that it's on the "squirrelmail" host? When you find that out, you've solved the problem.
Regards,
-Don
If you want everything to be user@students.kcai.edu, set
$domain = 'students.kcai.edu';
or maybe
$domain = implode('', file('/etc/hostname'));
The real question is, how does squirelmail know that it's on the "squirrelmail" host? When you find that out, you've solved the problem.
Most of the time, I find that Squirrelmail tends to pull the hostname from the Doamin name as entered in the web browser. I think it's a config issue in the files, but I am honestly not sure. there's a way around it.
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