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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hi Paul,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks so much for your note. Again I am sorry for asking you this, but this is my first time. Please correct me if I am wrong:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#1F497D'>On the domain host I set up MX record pointing to the IP address of the server for Kolab (this is for delivering the emails to the server). Can I use the MX record with IP:Port format to point it to a server behind the firewall?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#1F497D'>For outbound emails from the Kolab server, how does the email leave? Do you have to specify any DNS?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#1F497D'>I also noticed during the installation that the postfix settings gave me several choices and I selected the default mode (smarthost internet) for mail settings.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I appreciate your help in clarifying the above.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Sultan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> signaldeveloper@gmail.com [mailto:signaldeveloper@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 02, 2015 5:49 PM<br><b>To:</b> Sultan Ghaznawi<br><b>Cc:</b> users@lists.kolab.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Configuration Help<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Sultan - this isn't a specific Kolab question you are asking. This is basic mail server handling. An MX record is needed, everything else works out of the box. <br><br>- Paul<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>On Oct 2, 2015, at 3:51 PM, Sultan Ghaznawi <<a href="mailto:shghaznawi@telusmail.net">shghaznawi@telusmail.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hello Everyone,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This is my first post and I am very new to Kolab, so I appreciate your patience.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have installed Kolab on an Ubuntu 14.04 server. I am able to login as the LDAP admin and create new accounts. The server is running virtually and sits behind a firewalled router. I would like to do a proof of concept for using Kolab in our production environment but I am stuck at how to configure incoming/outgoing mail settings.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have spent a lot of time on the documentation and it doesn’t explicitly talk about how I should configure the Kolab server to send out mail and I am very confused with regards to how incoming mail is handled. I know that I need to add an MX record to the domain name in question, but I do need some help and any guide/tutorial out there would be very helpful.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>After reading about Kolab and spending time on the demo servers, I am very appreciative of all the effort that has gone into this truly open source software and share the vision of its developers in terms of its growth potential. Please help me get a working Kolab server in place as I would like to get involved and contribute.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sultan<o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>_______________________________________________<br>users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:users@lists.kolab.org">users@lists.kolab.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.kolab.org/mailman/listinfo/users">https://lists.kolab.org/mailman/listinfo/users</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></blockquote></div></body></html>