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• No Global domain document is required. This solution works with and without one.
  
  
• No Global Web Settings document is required except where hosted organisations are in use.
  
  
• Server document must be set to load Internet configurations from Internet Sites documents.
  
  
• At least one other Internet Site (other than inbound SMTP) must be present for this test to be valid. My testing has used a single default web site.
  
  
• The SMTP Inbound document must nominate every local IP address to be used for inbound SMTP. In my test, a VMWare virtual server (Win2K) was configured with 2 NICs and these have IP addresses of 10.44.0.5 and 10.44.0.10.
  
  
• Conventional loopback (localhost or 127.0.0.1) does not work. You can use a loopback address but must choose one in the range 127.0.1.1 - 127.255.255.254. In my testing I have used a few such addresses (127.1.2.3 in the example here).
  
  UPDATE 2 Sep 2005: loopback on 127.0.0.1 does work in the public release of 7.0 - just include the loopback address in the SMTP Inbound Site document.

• Local addresses may be NATted, but the external NAT addresses do not need to be named in the SMTP Inbound Site document, only the local IP addresses as directly configured in the local host OS.
  
  
• A D7 server configured this way will accept inbound SMTP from external hosts at all of its NICs whose local IPs, whether externally NATted or not, are named in the SMTP Inbound Site. It will also accept inbound SMTP from itself on whichever loopback address you nominate.
  
  
• The localhost (127.0.0.1) issue is a change in behaviour since D6.5.x and has been reported as a problem to the D7 developers. Meanwhile, the workaround of an alternate loopback address appears to work consistently.
  
  UPDATE 2 Sep 2005: loopback on 127.0.0.1 does work in the public release of 7.0

If you can spare the time, do please test this and see if you can duplicate my findings. I will be happy to help if you need it.

Updated 6 April 2007: Note that you must also have only one SMTP Inbound Site per server.

Category: Domino 7
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1. Gerco Wolfswinkel02/08/2005 11:57:45
Homepage: http://www.domino-weblog.nl

Hi Chris,

I have implemented the configuration as described above on my home ND7 server, which runs my private internet domain, and can receive SMTP email without problems.

2. Florian02/08/2005 20:10:04

Your bluring could be improved...

3. Chris Linfoot03/08/2005 09:09:08

For a while I misread that as "blue ring". There's not a lot to say about that.

You mean "blurring". Well, I will grant you that a sharp eyed reader could still have identified the blurred parts of the images - I just didn't like the aesthetic impact of more extreme blurring.

However, just for you the blurring is now well and truly blurred.

4. ryan11/11/2005 00:34:10

Thanks for posting - great blog... I found this solution linked from the LDD forums. The localhost issue solved a number of problems I got since enabling "use internet settings doc" on the server config. This is a new D7 linux install coming from a R6.5 Windows box...

5. El Hadj Youssef29/01/2007 15:38:54

Hi Chris,<br>I updated the configuration of our server (7.0.1) to load configuration from Internet Sites Documents and I got the smtp problem :<br><b>SMTP Server: Authentication is not enabled in the SMTP Internet Site Document for picosoft</b><br>Looking around I found your solution, in fact it's the only one that I found <br>But the problems persists ! <br>Is there some other tricks ?<br>Regards

6. Chris Linfoot29/01/2007 16:19:46

No other trick. This has worked everywhere it has been tried.

Do you have an SMTP Inbound Site document?

7. El Hadj Youssef29/01/2007 16:36:56

Thx for your reply...
I'm now working on a test server and I had the some configuration as described :
- One Ineternet Site Document
- One SMTP Inbound Site document (with IP Adress)
And "Load Internet configurations from Server\Internet Sites documents:" is set to "Enabled"
Do I miss some thing ?

8. Chris Linfoot29/01/2007 16:56:59

"One SMTP Inbound Site document (with IP Adress)"

This will work if you are using the right IP address. If it is sitting behind NAT then you want the NATted address, not the public one. If testing via loopback, you also need to list the loopback address (any address in 127.0.0.0/8 though usually it would be 127.0.0.1).

9. El Hadj Youssef29/01/2007 17:04:03

The server used have one static adress 192.168.x.xx and I'm testing with telnet on this adress

10. Chris Linfoot29/01/2007 17:15:43

Is SMTP mail routing enabled on the server document?

11. El Hadj Youssef29/01/2007 17:20:11

Yes .... of course !

12. Chris Linfoot30/01/2007 10:45:01

Do you have a Global Web Settings document?

13. Chris Linfoot30/01/2007 13:41:32

See also:

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd6forum.nsf/ShowMyTopicsAllFlatweb/b8a8f4ef34549f3c85257273003c4082?OpenDocument

And does the SMTP Inbound Site document actually name the server(s) hosting the site? If not, then this will cause the exact symptoms you are seeing.

14. El Hadj Youssef30/01/2007 14:54:44

Hi Chris,
My problem is finally resolved . I simply tried the same configuration on another machine ! and It works !
Thanks alot for your help
Regards

15. Jens07/07/2007 12:55:10
Homepage: http://www.ligonet.ch

Great

Thanks for that post. It just solved my problem with the new setup of a D8B3 Server.

Jens

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