Utilities: Administration: Sites: New Site: SMTP

Incoming SMTP IP addresses

Specifies the incoming IP address(es) to be used for this site. When Aurea List Manager receives mail, it displays a banner identifying the server. You may want incoming mail for this site to see the site's host name for the banner. When mail servers connect to the IP address(es) specified here, Aurea List Manager will display the site's hostname in the banner. Which IP address a mail server uses to connect to your Aurea List Manager server depends on the DNS entry for the hostname.

The IP addresses displayed for these options are determined by a server configuration setting in: Utilities: Administration: Server: Server Settings: Machine/Node Settings: IP Addresses: Machine IP Addresses.

We recommend that each site use its own incoming IP address. If you have multiple sites using the same incoming IP address, they should all use the same host name. Otherwise, the wrong SMTP banner may be used for mail being received by Aurea List Manager for the IP address, as it does not know which site the incoming mail is intended for at that stage of the SMTP transaction.

Incoming SMTP banner

Specifies the banner for incoming SMTP connections. By default, the banner displayed will show the host name:

220 yoursitehostname.example.com ESMTP Lyris Aurea List Manager service ready

Any text specified here will replace the host name in the incoming SMTP banner. Note: If you have the rebrandable version of Aurea List Manager, your name will replace "Lyris ListManager" in the banner.

We recommend that each site use its own incoming IP address. If you have multiple sites using the same incoming IP address, you may wish to specify a "generic" incoming SMTP banner so the host name for another site is not used. Otherwise, the SMTP banner may show the host name for a different site, as Aurea List Manager does not know which site the incoming mail is intended for at that stage of the SMTP transaction.

Outgoing MailStream

To select an outgoing MailStream

Click the Outgoing MailStream drop-down list, and then choose the mail stream you want.

Version 9.3 and earlier

This option was labeled Outgoing SMTP IP address. Each site was assigned INADDR_ANY (0.0.0.0.), displayed as (any) in the dropdown-list, and let the operating system choose the outgoing IP address. An INADDR_ANY option could then be re-assigned to a specific IP address on the host for outbound setting.

Version 10.0 and later

The option is labeled Outgoing MailStream and the IPs associated with each site are turned into MailStreams. After you upgrade to Aurea List Manager 10.0 or later, any site that was designated (any) for outbound connections is re-assigned to default and uses 0.0.0.0 (operating system choice).

At sending time, Aurea List Manager records the actual local IP address it was using for each connection to a remote server. Blocks recorded when using the IP address 0.0.0.0 are saved using the true IP address on the local host. However, since it can change over time, Aurea List Manager has no way to know which local IP address 0.0.0.0 will resolve to. For this reason, blocks do not work as effectively with MailStreams using 0.0.0.0, so we recommend that all MailStreams use specific (one or more) IP addresses instead of 0.0.0.0.

MailStreams overview

Create a new MailStream