Hello all.  I'm new to this program but it looks great!.  To begin with, I'm just hoping to use it to for this.

I have an older printer which I need to be able to send outbound alerts from, my personal gmail.  The printer dialog has no way to invoke the smtp authentication that google would need, so I've made the printer a user under an xeams server running on QNAP.  What do I need to do to be able to have xeams forward those emails out of my network to gmail?

Many thanks

Johnny,

Is your printer sending alerts to local users or email addresses on the Internet? If alerts are sent to local users - meaning destined for domains that are configured in Xeams as local domains, you don't need to do anything. Simply specify Xeams host name/IP address in the printer's SMTP server.

If you need to send alerts to foreign domains, such as gmail.com or hotmail.com, you will have to add printer's IP address for relaying. Xeams will not accept out-bound emails unless you use SMTP Authentication or the IP address is among the relaying list. Since you cannot use SMTP Auth, the only option left is accepting relaying from the IP address of your printer. You can even use a wildcard address like 192.168.1.* .

A Potential Problem

Since you're using Xeams on QNAP, there could be another potential issue. There are two packages for Xeams on QNAP: one that you download from QNAP's website and another you download from Xeams.com (http://xeams.com/XeamsDownload.htm). The QNAP's package runs Xeams within Container Station that creates a semi-vitirual machine within QNAP. As a result, every email coming in to Xeams appears to come from a local LAN ip that looks something like 10.0.0.x. Therefore, allowing relay from this IP inadvertently opens up your entire Xeams as an open relay. 

Therefore, we recommend you don't QNAP package from our website rather than running it within Contain Station.

Hey

Many thanks for the reply.  I'm only running this in this one instance for now, and there are no other users, so I'm not worried about the open relay issue for now.  I have set the ip address of the printer to be accepted for relaying.  Live monitor shows success but no email is recieved in my gmail account.  I must be missing a step - how does xeams connect to the internet?  

Thanks again