[Building Sakai] Sakai 2.9.3 incoming email does not work

[Sam Ottenhoff]

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> using MX lookup confirms me that our test domain does not have MX Record.
>


You will never be able to fully test incoming mail properly until you have
an MX record.


> Here's my dilemma :  our test server is sharing network space with some
> other servers, and I've heard that incoming emails are not allowed.
>


Okay, then testing incoming email will be impossible.



>  Under this circumstance, I am wondering
> testMode at org.sakaiproject.email.api.EmailService=true
>


testMode will disable *outgoing* email from Sakai and will instead print
the contents to the log.


> or any other method (without MX Record set...) will indicate that incoming
> email
> will work, if I have MX record properly.
>

Sure, try sending a test message to the James server on port 8025 using
telnet: https://workaround.org/ispmail/lenny/test-mail-through-telnet
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