[Koha] email setup and documentation [Solved]

[Luis Alberto Olguin Villafañe]

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2010/10/8 Msgr. Marion J. Makarewicz <marmak3261 at att.net>:
> Sorry to have posted and then found the answer myself. I traced the problem
> from one more try at understanding the errors in my mail.log and mail.err.
> Turns out that since I was not running local DNS, I needed square brackets
> around the SMTP:[host.name.net] entry in the mailertable.db. I’ll do my best
> to document email setup as I did it and post to the wiki.
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> Marion
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>>I have been able to go through all the steps for a Koha 3.0 install on
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>>Ubuntu. Catalogue and circulation are all set up, imported from an existing
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>>Follett ILS. I am so impressed with this excellent software and a great
>> user
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>>community.
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>>One remaining issue is getting the email notifications to work on my
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>>network. I can find minimal postings in the lists and no specific how to in
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>>the documentation as to setting up email.
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>>This is a school environment and I have an email server already running
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>> (Dovecot) handling all the local faculty and student email accounts.
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>>My Koha box is distinct. How do I get the email notifications to relay to
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>>the mail server? I've tried it with sendmail configured on the Koha
>> machine.
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>>I can deliver to local users. I'm trying to understand MX entries, relays,
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>>and wondering if I have to set up a DNS server. I do have all the machines
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>>figured to static IP addresses and host names.
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>>Any pointers in the right direction? A recent thread seemed to be solved
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>>with Postfix, but not knowing the network configuration, I'm not sure
>> what's
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>>next. One suggestion was nullmailer. Perhaps it's just that sendmail is so
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>>challenging in its setup. I have had experience with sendmail and that's
>> why
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>>I've tried it first.
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>>In many respects this may be off topic, but considering that Koha is
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>>available as a turn-key solution, it seems that a little more clarity on
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>>what else is needed to configure to enable it to use full functionality,
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>>much like the documentation is clear on how to set up the MySQL database,
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>>and then you can forget about it.
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