Mail forwarding
Steve Siirila
In a recent reply to net-people and net-ops, I stated:
> Actually we prefer POPmail and other desktop SMTP mail clients to use:
>
> smtp-gw.tc.umn.edu
>
> For departmental mail server systems you should use what is stated
> above.
> While these services are presently equivalent, this may not always be
> the case.
This was a reply to Scott Bertilson's original message:
> Networking and Telecommunications Services has been providing
> e-mail forwarding service via our machine "mail.unet.umn.edu", but
> the campus-wide e-mail service group (Internet Enterprise) of OIT runs
> a much more capable machine that provides the same service. We would
> like people to switch their forwarding over the next month so that we
> can decommission this service within a month or 2.
>
> If you have been using our forwarding service, you should find
> references to:
> mail.unet.umn.edu <=> 128.101.101.103
> in your e-mail configuration (for POPmail, this will show up
> as the "SMTP" server). Please change them to:
> relay.tc.umn.edu
> or if you *must* use a numeric address, use:
> 128.101.131.50
>
> If you don't find references to our machine, please ignore this
> message...we will be scanning our logs and will contact and assist
> those who continue to use the service as we approach the deadline.
It was brought to my attention by Mike Balak that POPmail does not allow you
to separately specify an SMTP server as some other clients such as Eudora do.
The SMTP server used for POPmail is actually the hostname portion of your
mailbox server, which is user...@username.email.umn.edu. In the case of
POPmail, then, the SMTP server is automatically "username.email.umn.edu"
which will work fine.
Sorry for the confusion!
P.S. I have included "ema...@tc.umn.edu" in this message as it was never in
the original distribution list.
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Steven F. Siirila
Enterprise Internet Services
Academic and Distributed Computing Services E-mail: s...@umn.edu
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