SMTP tests OK but no Email! Mail server is buggin out!!!

[MyEyesAreBurning]

Ok heres the run down, Basically I come into work and the mail server is buggin out. The SMTP service has stopped and the service will not start at all... some crazy error and event Id. Not to mention that the domain host registration ran out and the DNS records changed back to the parked DNS servers! This happened in the same day. Anyway, after correcting the DNS entries to hit my WAN side IP. I dismounted the exchange store and backed it up. reinstalled exchange along with the SMTP connector. The service starts and responds to email testing tools.


example:


SMTP Connection:

OK, connected to turnkeyinc.us...
< 220 turnkeyinc.us Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 6.0.3790.3959 ready at Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:31:46 -0400
> HELO edit.dnsvr.com
< 250 turnkeyinc.us Hello [64.85.73.124]
> MAIL FROM:<derek@coastalcomputertechs.com>
< 250 2.1.0 derek@coastalcomputertechs.com....Sender OK
> RCPT TO:<test1@turnkeyinc.us>
< 250 2.1.5 test1@turnkeyinc.us
> DATA
< 354 Start mail input; end with <CRLF>.<CRLF>
> From: derek@coastalcomputertechs.com
> To: test1@turnkeyinc.us
> Subject: ZoneEdit Automated SMTP Test (turnkeyinc.us)
>
> If you received this, then the mail server (turnkeyinc.us) is probably working.
> Sent at 2009-06-30 05:31:47 by 71.76.59.21 using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
> .
< 250 2.6.0 <SERVER12VqKwRPQIWDO00000003@turnkeyinc.us> Queued mail for delivery


Not sure what to do, I'm stuck any help would be great.
Thanks,
MEAB

 

[MyEyesAreBurning]

on other thing... This is quite important. i can send mail intra-office, that might be important.
Thnaks,
meab

 

[58sniper]

some crazy error and event Id

Yeah, that helps alot.

Telnetting to your server over port 25 gets me an Exchange POP3 greeting. That's not right.

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/

 

[MyEyesAreBurning]

58Sniper, I apologize for being so vague... I have been beating my head all day and I think I found a solution. Turns out that the POP3 Service and the IIS service were taking turns hijacking port 25 from the SMTP service.

heres a bit of the solution that I found. Fixed the port issue and allowed the SMTP service to start with out issue.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322023

still working on on getting mail flow.

Thanks,
MEAB