can't send mail after restore, old one can.

[pinkpig13]

Hello all,

I was finally able to restore a server. I have Exchange5.5 on a windows 2000 server machine. I did a offline backup(copying dir.edb,priv.edb etc..) transferred to new server. I also had to do Isinteg -patch because exchange wouldnt start at first. After i did that everything was up and running.

I tried sending an email local to local and get an error of
"550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for xxxx@domain.com"

I tried sending an email from my gmail account to an account hosted on my email server and i get a bounce back with the same error.

I made sure in IMS under routing that i have my routing restrictions with my internal IP. Reroute incoming SMTP mail is selected also. Under routing i have my domain name under Send To: and under Route to: i have <inbound>
All these configs are the same on the old server.


If i unplug the new server and plug the old machine back onto the network i can send/receive emails fine. Once i unplug the old one and put the new one back on the network nothing works. I've done reboots, unjoin / join the domain again.

Anyone know what can be causing this? 3

Thanks
Laura

 

[zbnet]

Your domain MX records need to deliever to the new server, not the old one.

 

[pinkpig13]

My MX records point to the same IP. The new machine has the same IP configuration as the old server. Thats why i cant have it on the network at the sametime.

when i telnet into my email server using its DNS name i get a response from the server.
i get :
Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 5.0.2195.6713 ready at Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:31:40 -0500

So it seems like MX records are fine.

Thanks
Laura

 

[zbnet]

Did you stop and restart the IMS service on the new server after making the config changes?

 

[pinkpig13]

Yea, i restarted and even rebooted the system.
I still get the no relay message. =(

Thanks
L

 

[zbnet]

And the IMS Routing section on the new server is identical to the old server?

 

[pinkpig13]

Yea the IMS routing is exactly samething. Under the Queues tab on the new server its greyed out though, would that cause any problems? I can't select the Queue Names. The rest of the tabs and the configuration in them are identical.

Thanks
L

 

[zbnet]

Remove and reinstall the IMS on the new server - the queues shouldn't be greyed out.

 

[pinkpig13]

Thank you!!!, that worked. I guess it was a corrupted IMS after it was restored.

 

[zbnet]

My pleasure.