Can't send internal mail or reciev external

[pamulli]

We have just upgraded our domain to Windows 2000 and also installed a New Exchange 2000 server. After installing exchange I setup a couple of test mailboxes and everything seemed to work fine. I then added mailboxes for the rest of our organiation and now the only thing that works is sending external messages. I can't send internal or receive external messages. Internal messages are routed to the outgoing SMTP queue. Exchange doesn't seem to be recognizing any of our internal mailboxes as internal. All inbound external mail is rejected saying user unknown. I'm not sure if it matters, but our Active Directory domain is different than our actual registered e-mail domain. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Please don't e-mail any responses because I can't receive it right now.

Thanks
Paul

 

[lengoo]

Hi,
In each account, in the Exchange settings you need to make sure that the email addresses have an entry which corresponds to that of your internal domain. eg if you have an AD domain internal.com and an external domain as external.com, you need to make sure that each user account has both an internal.com and external.com smtp address.

 

[pamulli]

Thanks for the response. Once we added our internal domain name as a default policy and told the smtp connnector to check for local deliver first it started working fine.

Thanks
Paul