I'm frustrated and out of ideas here.
On a server at home SBS2003 has exchange set to retreive po3 mail from 2 sources (isp and website host). SMTP connectors sends outgoing mail to smtp.isp.com and outgoing auth is set to anonymous though I'm sure it should be required. All works ok it seems.
The problem is on a different server on another site. SBS2003 wants changes to collect pop3 mail for a number of users, and send all pop3 mail back through their emailhost's SMTP server which is mail.emailhostname.com. The problem is nothing is getting out, and if you look in exchange manager under servers/servername/queues you see "smallbusiness SMTP connectiong - mail.emailhostname.com (SMTP connector) with a load of messages in the queue and state set to retry. Forcing connection makes it go active but quickly goes back to reply.
I've tried adding outbound authentication both in the delivery properties of "default SMTP server" and under advanced properties of "smallbusiness SMTP connector" (using the login@emailhostname.com/password from a random user) but still no luck!
I've also added external DNS servers in delivery properties of "default SMTP virtual server" on the advanced screen pressing configure, and I added mail.emailhostname.com under 'smart host' in that same advanced screen from delivery properies of "default SMTP virtual server".
So I'm out of ideas but getting to the point where I'm seriously configuring things away from the SBS2003 default.
What must someone do just to get clients using outlook (who were previously using outlook to check pop3 mail and send via emailhostname.com using their login for authentication) to use exchange while exchange gets their email for them (this bit is working fine) but exchange also sends it (via mail.emailhostname.com)?
I need to sort this ASAP so they can do email :/
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Leozack
On a server at home SBS2003 has exchange set to retreive po3 mail from 2 sources (isp and website host). SMTP connectors sends outgoing mail to smtp.isp.com and outgoing auth is set to anonymous though I'm sure it should be required. All works ok it seems.
The problem is on a different server on another site. SBS2003 wants changes to collect pop3 mail for a number of users, and send all pop3 mail back through their emailhost's SMTP server which is mail.emailhostname.com. The problem is nothing is getting out, and if you look in exchange manager under servers/servername/queues you see "smallbusiness SMTP connectiong - mail.emailhostname.com (SMTP connector) with a load of messages in the queue and state set to retry. Forcing connection makes it go active but quickly goes back to reply.
I've tried adding outbound authentication both in the delivery properties of "default SMTP server" and under advanced properties of "smallbusiness SMTP connector" (using the login@emailhostname.com/password from a random user) but still no luck!
I've also added external DNS servers in delivery properties of "default SMTP virtual server" on the advanced screen pressing configure, and I added mail.emailhostname.com under 'smart host' in that same advanced screen from delivery properies of "default SMTP virtual server".
So I'm out of ideas but getting to the point where I'm seriously configuring things away from the SBS2003 default.
What must someone do just to get clients using outlook (who were previously using outlook to check pop3 mail and send via emailhostname.com using their login for authentication) to use exchange while exchange gets their email for them (this bit is working fine) but exchange also sends it (via mail.emailhostname.com)?
I need to sort this ASAP so they can do email :/
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Leozack
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