I have setup a Mail/FTP server on my Windows 2000 Server computer. My incoming mail works great. The outgoing won't send to certain domains. The major one is the domain of my ISP. So, I can't send to my own other email address. I think I have done the DNS servers right but I could be wrong. Why would only email to certain domains sit in the queue and never send?
Anyone know Exchange??
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I'm trying to remember off the top of my head what we did to fix a similar problem, but I can't quite get it.
On one of our webservers we were running an SMTP virtual server, and it could manage to send everywhere but to our own domain. We eventually had to add the domain into it and tell it that it needed to forward all mail destined for that domain to a smart host. (which we defined as the primary mail server)
Poke around and see if you can find where to add a domain and configure a smart host for it, then make that host the ISPs mail server and that should get you going.
If I have a chance to log on to that server and check it out I'll post some more info.
On one of our webservers we were running an SMTP virtual server, and it could manage to send everywhere but to our own domain. We eventually had to add the domain into it and tell it that it needed to forward all mail destined for that domain to a smart host. (which we defined as the primary mail server)
Poke around and see if you can find where to add a domain and configure a smart host for it, then make that host the ISPs mail server and that should get you going.
If I have a chance to log on to that server and check it out I'll post some more info.
I would appreciate that. It has been driving me nuts for about a month now. This problem is the reason behind me studying Exchange for my next MCP. I'll see if making a smart host makes a difference. I do have my ISP DNS servers set as forwarders. Then, I have exchange pointing at my internal DNS. Does that sound right? Thanks for the help.
Yeah, your DNS sounds right, that's exactly how I have mine here.
With a regular SMTP Virtual Server it just has a domains section in the tree, so you can do the settings in that. But looking at Exchange, it organizes it a little differently.
You define the smart host in the default SMTP Virtual Server properties section, under the messages tab. There is a place that says forward all mail with unresolved recipients to host:
What I believe this does (IIRC), is take mail that it feels it should normally process on its own, i.e. domains that are defined in the recipient policy, and it it gets one that it doesn't have a local mailbox for, it will forward it on to the other host. So if you have the domain of your ISP set up in your recipient policy, (make sure you don't check the box that makes it responsible for all mail in the domain), then put your ISPs mail server in the forward box, and you should be good to go.
I'd imagine that this gets more complicated if you were needing to accept partial mail for several domains, and then forward the unresolved addresses on to multiple outgoing servers, but I'm not gonna try to figure it out if you don't need to do it.
With a regular SMTP Virtual Server it just has a domains section in the tree, so you can do the settings in that. But looking at Exchange, it organizes it a little differently.
You define the smart host in the default SMTP Virtual Server properties section, under the messages tab. There is a place that says forward all mail with unresolved recipients to host:
What I believe this does (IIRC), is take mail that it feels it should normally process on its own, i.e. domains that are defined in the recipient policy, and it it gets one that it doesn't have a local mailbox for, it will forward it on to the other host. So if you have the domain of your ISP set up in your recipient policy, (make sure you don't check the box that makes it responsible for all mail in the domain), then put your ISPs mail server in the forward box, and you should be good to go.
I'd imagine that this gets more complicated if you were needing to accept partial mail for several domains, and then forward the unresolved addresses on to multiple outgoing servers, but I'm not gonna try to figure it out if you don't need to do it.
Ok. I'll give that a try. Its a pretty simple single domain email server. No need to get too complicated. hehehe. I haven't messed around with a smart host yet. Thanks.
True, forgot to mention that.
Since it's his IP and it's coming from their IP range, chances are it could still work. Still worth a try.
If they require authentication though rather than just being in the right IP range it could be a little more trouble, I don't know how you could set up authentication for a smart host, if it's even possible.
Since it's his IP and it's coming from their IP range, chances are it could still work. Still worth a try.
If they require authentication though rather than just being in the right IP range it could be a little more trouble, I don't know how you could set up authentication for a smart host, if it's even possible.
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