Re: SMTP Email collection over ADSL

From: Marina Roos [SBS-MVP] (marina_at_roos.nodontwantspam.nl.com)
Date: 02/19/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:05:56 GMT

Hi Nick,

Check on www.dnsreport.com if your ISP has already made the changes for your
public IP. As long as they haven't done that, you won't be able to receive
mail.
You should be able to telnet to your public IP from inside and outside your
network. You have run the ICW-wizard, right? 

-- 
Regards,
Marina
[SBS-MVP]
"Nick Hill" <nick@mailboxisinvalid.net> schreef in bericht
news:c12pfj$grn$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk...
> Hi
>
> System: SBS2000 SP1 W2k SP4
>
> I set up an ADSL2000 account today with static IP non-NAT + Vigor 2600
> router.
>
> I found out after calling the ISP, that they hadn't got around to changing
> the email MX settings & are doing it tonight. This explains one reason why
I
> couldn't get email to work!  :-(
>
> The SBS server ip is 192.168.16.2.
> The Vigor I left the out of the box setting of 192.168.1.1. The ISP ip is
> 80.176.118.177.
> The 2nd server external nic is 192.168.1.10, subnet 255.255.255.0, gateway
> 192.168.1.1, dns 192.168.16.2.
>
> With those settings, Internet access is working fine on the server & all
> clients.  (!)
>
> However, email is not working. I have now asked the ISP to change the MX
> record to point to the new mailgate ip which is 80.176.118.178.
>
> My 1st question is, how do I get SBS to get mail? I think that in ICW I
just
> set mail to collect via DNS, is that correct?
>
> My 2nd question is if I need to tweak the "out the box" Vigor 2600
settings
> to allow port 25 access? If so, how can I do this please?
>
> Regards
> Nick Hill
>
>

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