Cisco Systems Document ID: 15942 Troubleshooting, Bbsm Users are Unable to Send or Receive E−Mail

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Troubleshooting

This section lists the most common error messages and support steps to help resolve each. Error messages are arranged alphabetically by topic.

For more details on BBSM and WEBConfig, consult the Cisco Building Broadband Service Manager Software Configuration Guide (78−12742−01). For the most up−to−date information and caveats on BBSM, consult the Cisco Building Broadband Service Manager 5.x Release Notes (OL−1044−01) available at www.cisco.com under Aggregation Solutions in the Documentation area.

BBSM Users are Unable to Send or Receive E−Mail

Symptoms

Users cannot send or receive e−mail with their

normal ISP account while connected to the BBSM

 

 

service. Users can either receive e−mail or not.

 

 

 

The user's ISP does not accept e−mail from

 

unrecognized sources or IP addresses. This does

 

not allow the the user's e−mail server to be used as

 

a SPAM gateway. Normally, the user's computer

 

receives its IP address from the ISP itself, so this

Cause 1

address is recognized as a valid source address.

When the user logs on to the BBSM network, the

 

 

user's computer receives its IP address from the

 

BBSM server. Therefore, the ISP sees this address

 

as foreign. When the user tries to send an e−mail

 

to this server, the server ignores the e−mail since

 

the server does not recognize the source IP address

 

as an address on its own network.

 

 

Resolution

If the BBSM network provider has set up an

1

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server in

 

order to resolve this problem, the IP address of that

 

server can be configured within BBSM. BBSM

 

then intercepts all SMTP packets and forwards the

 

packets to the IP address. This solution precludes

 

the need for users to reconfigure their e−mail

 

program. Set the SMTP forwarding address as

 

such:

 

1. From the desktop, navigate to BBSM

 

Dashboard > WEBconfig > Server. You

 

can also access this from: http://<BBSM

 

IP:9488>/WEBconfig/server.asp

 

2. Enter the IP address of the SMTP server

 

in the SMTP Forwarding IP Address

 

 

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