Exchchange set up help 1

[sftechnoboy]

Ok I installed it and I don't know how to configure a transport agent. How do I get Exchange to sent and recieve messages?!

 

[Kuria]

a typical installation will have your internal email flowing fine. For exteral email as you might have discovered by now, you just need to set up an Internet Mail Service. If you need more info, let me know.
Regards.
kuria

 

[sftechnoboy]

Yeah you're right ) I did figure that out, however the transport is slow and I'm not recieving mail on it.

Sending: Mail seems to hang and remain queued on the server. I can force the server to send and it does...otherwise it hangs for appx 7 hrs. Do you know how to address this

Receiving:I still have yet to receive a message from an internet that I've sent from a Yahoo account. any tips?

thanx SOOO much!
Sf TechnoBoy

 

[Guest_imported]

For sending/receiving messages to/from IC : You require IMS to be configured properly. IMS is the component keeps your exchange server to act as SMTP server.

For sending mails, let me know whether you are using DNS resolution or single SMTP host. If you are using DNS, you shd configure your IMS in the DNS database as an MX entry.

And also tell me abt the connectivity you have betwn your server & ISP setup.

Hari.

 

[sftechnoboy]

Thanx for the info and sorry for the lag, I think I do have an DNS issue.

I set up 2 DNS servers Windows 2000 Advanced Server) "ops" and "media1". my ISP is PacBell. ops is the primary DNS server with a MX entry. the DNS entris are all duplicatd on media1. None of my networks configurations call back to the PacBell DNS servers.

I should also add that ops is also a DHCP server using the same DNS IP's and I haven't had a problem. Well I have but it's not an important one )

Am I missing a step here?