I have a few email address scattered around and have been using Comcast as a mta but they’ve gotten snotty and won’t help with an error message. They tell me it’s my configuration and to contact Thunderbird for help. So I decided to try MIAB. It works fine when the email is being sent from the address I configured it for but fails when I try to use it to send email from another email.
“An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded:
5.7.1 jim@other.mail.net: Sender address rejected: not owned by user jim@box.myemail.com.
Please check the message recipient "jim@other.mail.net” and try again"
Is there a way I can configure it to accept other email addresses?
The above (a,b,c) allow you to easily configure rules in the web mail client to move incoming email from each mail box into a folder of your choice. Also note: the “gmail+” is a tag, no need for more than one account just prepend “string+” to an email address hosted on MIAB to get it in that mailbox, but create a rule first to move that email to a specific folder. I hope this helps!
EG:
Your email could be john@smith.com
Forwarded GMail tag could be gmail+john@smith.com
Make a rule in roundcube to move any email with the tag “gmail” or to email "gmail+john@smith.com" to the folder in roundcube called “Gmail”
Good information, however it doesn’t address my problem. I’ve been using Comcast as an smtp server and they changed something and it doesn’t work any longer and refuse to help me. I used my comcast user/pw to log in, so I wasn’t using it as an open relay.
The address that I’m trying to send from is an alias at arrl.net. Mycall@arrl.net gets forwarded to one of my email addresses from a server at ARRL. I’m simply trying to find a way to create emails with a from: Mycall@arrl.net. I have MIAB running on a VPS and working well for sending receiving emails for that domain. I’m a bit confused over the terminology in the “mail/alias” page. It seems to imply that if I have an alias that forwards to another email address, if I have the right selection, “ny mail user listed in the Fowards To box can send mail claiming to be from the alias address.” then the email that I’m aliased to can send email, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. The column “Permitted Senders” is blank for jim@example.com forwards to mycall@arrl.net where jim@example.com is a valid email on my domain. Of course when I attempt to use MIAB I still get the “An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded:
5.7.1 mycall@arrl.net: Sender address rejected: not owned by user jim@example.com.”
In the list of domains and ailiass I see
Alias Forwards to Permitted senders Example.com
I’m not using port 25. I need a smtp relay of some kind and MIAB isn’t working. I’m no longer trying to use Comcast, I was trying to use my MIAB box but it won’t accept mail to be forwarded from @arrl.net. Please read my previous post.
does it accept mail from else where? Because what you are describing is MIAB works, but cannot accept mail from a particular domain, which could be either:
A) MIAB is blocking that domain because it is blacklisted somewhere (Either in MIAB or spamhause,etc)
B) The server “arrl.net” is not allowing forwarding of email?
I wouldn’t be able to help further without looking at the server logs themselves. Sorry!
