Relay

[minoad]

I am running exchange 2003. I am interested in having this server act as my smtp server. When i turn on anon access for my internal users i was getting several servers returning relay denied. I enabled authentication and this fixed my problem. However now when sending to AOL users the email just hangs in the queue. I am either looking for information on this, or information on the errors that are being returned in the queue. no ndr's coming back. I have turned on the relevent diagnostic loggin but still nothing of concern in the event viewer.

Thanks
Micah A. Norman

 

[Marcs41]

and what are the errors on the AOL messages?

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[minoad]

That is the strange thing. The emails to aol are just hanging up in the queue. Thier are no messages. The error I get on the queue is about as generic as they come, "Thier has been an SMTP protocol error." Relay is off, authentication for all outgoing is on. I think the issue is with reverse dns resolution. However i now have an ISP who still has not made the DNS changes i need.

 

[Marcs41]

Well then, talk to that ISP first. If you work with a crippled setup, you can expect problems.

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[minoad]

All changes to resolution have been made. Assuming the email server has a ip address of 5.5.5.5, i have reversed 5.5.5.5 to email.companyx.com, and have created a forward lookup of email.companyx.com and pointed to 5.5.5.5. I am still not getting anything through to aol. Any ideas?

Micah A. Norman

 

[Marcs41]

Turn OFF the Reverse DNS to see what happens.

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