Can't Get Blog By Email Configured Correctly

I can't seem to get blogging by email configured correctly.  For now I'm attempting to use my external ISP's mail servers for this (working on getting my own internal mail server set up, but that's taking a back burner for now).  Plus this could be some good info to know going forward for clients and for building stuff on top of this.

My ISP is RoadRunner (suffix is carolina.rr.com), so that's what I set the defaultEmailDomain to.  The email address that CS generated is xxxxxxxx@carolina.rr.com, so I created an email address w/ the RR website with that ID.  I've added the following entries in the <receivers> node in my cs.config files under both CSMail and CS:

        <add name="pop3" type="CommunityServer.Mail.Receivers.Core.Pop3, CommunityServer.Mail.Receivers.Core"
                        hostname="pop-server.carolina.rr.com" username="jaypatrick" password="--" pollInterval="300" />
        <add name="pop3-1" type="CommunityServer.Mail.Receivers.Core.Pop3, CommunityServer.Mail.Receivers.Core"
            hostname="pop-server.carolina.rr.com" username="xxxxxxxx" password="--" pollInterval="300" />

The server info is correct.  MSMQ is installed and I can see the cs related q's in the private q's folder.  What am I missing here?

TIA

First, you should never ever make your blog email address public.  It is meant to be completely private (hence the point of it being random).  I could email the address right now and it would allow it to post because it assumes only you know the address so only you would be emailing it.  I edited it out of your post, but don't do that again.

Second, you are setting up your mailboxes wrong.  You want to setup a catch-all where any email to @whatever.com goes to one mailbox.  That way, you don't have to register a new receiver for each and every forum or blog.  If you can't setup a catch-all, then setup a single mailbox and give it multiple aliases.

Yeah, mental lapse there (is 8 characters enough though?  Why not use a GUID which would be virtually impossible for would be spammers to crack?).  Changed it per your PM as well.  Thx for editing my post .

Regardless, I'm just in a testing stage right now as it's just going to be me that's blogmailing my own blog (single blog, only I have access).  I'm just trying to get this all figured out in advance before I start pitching it to clients so I can get it right the first go round (plus I have some ideas for stuff I'd like to build on top of this).

I understand your second point, but I'm pretty sure I won't be able to set this up w/ RR's pathetic email account mgmt as they don't have an interface to set up either of the suggestions you mentioned.  That being said, I would think that for my testing scenario, adding a second name node under receivers w/ the correct EmailID information should work...I checked the receiver log files for errors, but they're empty.  I do have some errors in csm_processor.log, but am not sure they matter as they're SMTP related.

If you are looking at pitching this towards clients then, if they have your type of email configuration, MG will not be very practical for them.  That is why I emphasize in the documentation to set up a catch-all, or else you will either not be able to leverage all the functionality, or have an administration nightmare if you have a larger site.

As for the 8 characters... they should be quite enough.  Since each of the characters is base 36 (0-9, a-z), and that we require it to be 8 characters long, the possible combinations are somewhere around 36⁸ - 36⁷ = 2,742,745,743,360 (basically, 2.7 trillion) possible combinations.

Gotcha, I just wanted something simple for now to test out and play around with.  So I guess I'm off to SMTP server configuration land!

ken:

First, you should never ever make your blog email address public.  It is meant to be completely private (hence the point of it being random).  I could email the address right now and it would allow it to post because it assumes only you know the address so only you would be emailing it.  I edited it out of your post, but don't do that again.

Second, you are setting up your mailboxes wrong.  You want to setup a catch-all where any email to @whatever.com goes to one mailbox.  That way, you don't have to register a new receiver for each and every forum or blog.  If you can't setup a catch-all, then setup a single mailbox and give it multiple aliases.

"If you can't setup a catch-all, then setup a single mailbox and give it multiple aliases."

Could U tell me more detail about how to set up "Catch-all" and "multple aliases"?

Thanks.

HoangNx

Not really, since it depends on what kind of mail server you are running. That configuration is outside of anything Mail Gateway or Community Server, so it depends on what mail server software you are using. If you tell me what kind, I might know, but I don't know how to for all of the systems out there.