Re: Exchange not recieving inbound mail

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catazy_at_hotmail.com
Date: 02/19/05 

Date: 19 Feb 2005 02:28:22 -0800

Hi,
domain is washingtonenvelopes.com and public ip is 217.45.195.17. I
started getting event id 418 and 520 for the smtpsvc yesterday and when
I checked in metaedit the smtpsvc had 3 entries (1,2 and info). Also
noticed there was no drop directory stated. So i decided to reinstall
the smtp service and then run the smtpreinstall command. Still no
success. So I then reinstalled IIS and did a maintenance on SBS Install
and reinstalled Exchange Server, after which I reapplied exchange
server service pack 3. Still no success. Can still telnet to port 25
and can still send outbound but no inbound email still getting the
5.0.0 ndr's. Short of reinstalling from scratch I can't think of
anything else to try, but am very reluctant to do that as Ive spent a
long time getting it set up the way I want.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP] wrote:
> can you tell us what your domain name is
> And give some clue as to which of the ips you show here is your
public IP?
>
> --
> Cris Hanna [SBS - MVP]
> ---------------------------------------
> Please reply only to the newsgroup and not to me directly so that
everyone
> can benefit from the information
> <catazy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1108745187.189672.94640@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> > Sorry for double posting but I wanted to amed my intial post with
the
> > smtpsvc logs.
> >
> > Hi,
> > Im in the process of setting up exchange. Mx records ahve been
changed
> > successfully. I can log on to OWA through mail.domain.com fine. I
can
> > send outbound mail fine. I can send internal mail fine. I can
telnet
> > port 25 and get greeted with the ESMTP Service banner message. I
can
> > "mail from" using telnet. but when I try to send an email inbound
from
> > an external source I immediately get returned a NDR from the
server's
> > MTA with status code 5.0.0, which I believe means unknown address.
In
> > OWA internal recipients are detected by the check name function so
the
> > address is valid.
> >
> > DNS on the external NIC is pointing to the internal server ip
address,
> > internet connectivity is fine (obviously) and have ran ICW several
> > times. The virtual smtp server is started and pointing to port 25
on
> > all unassigned IPs. Anonymous access is enabled and I have tried
> > allowing and disabling using server as mail relay.
> >
> > Has anyone got an insight into what could be going wrong here?
First
> > sbs2000 and it is not going well!!!
> >
> > Id much appreciate any advice. Please find smtp log below (may or
may
> > not help diagnose problem):
> >
> > #Software: Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0
> > #Version: 1.0
> > #Date: 2005-02-18 15:45:27
> > #Fields: time c-ip cs-method cs-uri-stem sc-status
> > 15:45:27 157.228.37.117 EHLO - 250
> > 15:45:27 157.228.37.117 MAIL - 250
> > 15:45:27 157.228.37.117 RCPT - 250
> > 15:45:27 157.228.37.117 RCPT - 250
> > 15:45:29 157.228.37.117 DATA - 250
> > 15:45:29 157.228.37.117 QUIT - 240
> > 15:45:31 157.228.0.12 - - 0
> > 15:45:31 157.228.0.12 EHLO - 0
> > 15:45:31 157.228.0.12 - - 0
> > 15:45:31 157.228.0.12 MAIL - 0
> > 15:45:31 157.228.0.12 - - 0
> > 15:45:31 157.228.0.12 RCPT - 0
> > 15:45:31 157.228.0.12 - - 0
> > 15:45:31 157.228.0.12 DATA - 0
> > 15:45:31 157.228.0.12 - - 0
> > 15:45:31 157.228.0.12 - - 0
> > 15:45:31 157.228.0.12 QUIT - 0
> > 15:45:31 157.228.0.12 - - 0
> > 15:49:25 193.111.201.130 EHLO - 250
> > 15:49:25 193.111.201.130 MAIL - 250
> > 15:49:25 193.111.201.130 RCPT - 250
> > 15:49:25 193.111.201.130 DATA - 250
> > 15:49:25 193.111.201.130 QUIT - 240
> > 15:49:27 213.171.216.118 - - 0
> > 15:49:27 213.171.216.118 EHLO - 0
> > 15:49:27 213.171.216.118 - - 0
> > 15:49:27 213.171.216.118 MAIL - 0
> > 15:49:27 213.171.216.118 - - 0
> > 15:49:27 213.171.216.118 RCPT - 0
> > 15:49:27 213.171.216.118 - - 0
> > 15:49:27 213.171.216.118 DATA - 0
> > 15:49:27 213.171.216.118 - - 0
> > 15:49:27 213.171.216.118 - - 0
> > 15:49:27 213.171.216.118 QUIT - 0
> > 15:49:27 213.171.216.118 - - 0
> >

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