Not receiving or sending

[ihstech]

I just installed exchange server 2000 on W2k Server and i had my ISP point the MX record to my Static IP. Then opened up port 25/110/143 on my router and forwarded those ports to my exchange server. Then setup my smtp with the ip address and the my ISP DNS server. But i can't receive or send email. When i try to send mail it just stays in my outbox. Can anybody help using outlooks 2002 as a client.


Thanks

 

[Marcs41]

First of all, Outlook has nothing to do with that.
Test you communication from and to the server first.

See for a Telnet test:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q153119

If you use your ISp to send out mail, mark it as Smart Host, if they let you!

Marc
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[ihstech]

I got it to send and receive now but clients are extremelly slow to connect to the exchange server you have to do a couple of retry to get it to connect to it. Would you know why that would be?

 

[Marcs41]

That can be alot.
Slow network, bad cable, congestions, to busy server... hard to tell from here,
Test with 1 client etc. to eliminate possibilities.