Rosanne Posted March 26, 2007 Posted March 26, 2007 I finally took the plunge and set up domain email addresses for some of the church staff. Most of the configuration was straightforward, and I did read the instructions (honest!), but the instructions just say SMTP will have to be set up by hand. That's fine, and I did so. But when T'Bird sees that the outbound server is something along the lines of "tch server385", instead of the "mail.mydomain.net" that I coded in, it throws an alert message. You have to confirm that you do indeed want to let the tch server handle the transaction. It works then, but there's got to be a way to turn that off... We've got folks that will call me at my real job to ask about it (I'm unpaid volunteer tech support ). Can I plug in the actual servername, versus mail.domainname? Will that work? If y'all have another solution for me, I'm all ears. Thanks!! ~ Rosanne Quote
TCH-Thomas Posted March 26, 2007 Posted March 26, 2007 Welcome to the forum, Roseanne. It should be "mydomain.net" and not serverxx.totalchoicehosting.com. Please check in the Thunderbird tutorial if you missed a step or something. Quote
Rosanne Posted March 26, 2007 Author Posted March 26, 2007 Welcome to the forum, Roseanne. It should be "mydomain.net" and not serverxx.totalchoicehosting.com. Please check in the Thunderbird tutorial if you missed a step or something. That was fast! Thanks! But that page is the one that tells me "You have to setup the SMTP (outgoing) server manually if you want to use your domain to send." I did set it up with the "mydomain.net" - both for incoming and outgoing. That's where the problem starts. T'Bird seems to be able to tell that it's really "serverxx" handling the transaction, and thinks that someone's trying to hijack the email. There may be a security setting somewhere that I have to change... my feelings won't be hurt if someone tells me I missed a step or got something wrong. But if I can successfully set up Gmail for inbound and outbound on T'Bird, with its weird ports, I know there's got to be an alert-free way to tell T'Bird to send and receive tch domain mail. I'll play with it this evening, using my own domain. Any suggestions for things to try are welcome. I was already tired yesterday, when I was messing with it, so I may have missed something obvious. ~ Rosanne Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted March 26, 2007 Posted March 26, 2007 If you are using the secure ports you will get that message unless you set the outgoing server to the same name on the certificate or select the certificate permanently. Quote
Rosanne Posted March 26, 2007 Author Posted March 26, 2007 If you are using the secure ports you will get that message unless you set the outgoing server to the same name on the certificate or select the certificate permanently. The name on the certificate was the serverxx name. That's why I was asking about changing the default "mail.domain.net" setting. Okay, I'll hunt for an option to permanently accept the certificate tonight, working with my own TCH domain. I think I didn't get the error on my own email because I configured T'Bird to receive from that address, but didn't bother with setting up the send feature. I also might not have been using the secure ports (BAD geek! ) Thanks! ~ Rosanne Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted March 26, 2007 Posted March 26, 2007 I use secure connections in Thunderbird. Set the outgoing SMTP server name to "serverXX.tchmachines.com" just as the certificate states. You will have to view and permanently accept the certificate one time (until the certificate changes - they get renewed once a year). If you use port 25 or 26 for sending you will not receive any messages about the certificate. BTW, Welcome to the forums. Quote
Rosanne Posted March 26, 2007 Author Posted March 26, 2007 I use secure connections in Thunderbird. Set the outgoing SMTP server name to "serverXX.tchmachines.com" just as the certificate states. You will have to view and permanently accept the certificate one time (until the certificate changes - they get renewed once a year). If you use port 25 or 26 for sending you will not receive any messages about the certificate. BTW, Welcome to the forums. Thanks! Gotta get to work, or I won't be able to afford my own domain... I'll practice setting everything tonight, and go take care of the church staff as soon as I've got it licked. ~ Rosanne Quote
Rosanne Posted March 26, 2007 Author Posted March 26, 2007 Okay. Using ports 995 and 465, with the "Use SSL" checked and "use secure authentication" NOT checked, with "server120.tchmachines.com" (my server) listed as the SMTP host, I was able to send from my domain mailserver securely via T'Bird. My attempts with "use TLS" failed, so I figured SSL was what was supported, and I should sit down, shut up and color I think I'm ready to finish setting up the church emails, now ... just as soon as I go find out the difference between TLS and SSL. All I know about them right now is that they're ways of securing email Thanks again! ~ Rosanne Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted March 26, 2007 Posted March 26, 2007 TLS - Transport Layer Security SSL - Secure Socket Layer SSL is all I use in TB for email. Quote
TCH-Don Posted March 26, 2007 Posted March 26, 2007 Welcome to the forum and the family, Roseanne Quote
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