I'm stumped, Please Help!

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Setup:
FES:
Windows 2003 SP1
Exchange 2003 Standard SP2

BES:
2 Node A/P Cluster
Windows 2003 SP1
Exchange 2003 Enterprise SP2


Problem:
Outgoing mail is successfully sent from the BES to the FES and out to the
internet. But incoming mail gets to the FES and gets stuck there in the BES
SMTP queue.

The FES knows the mail should be routed to the BES but it looks like it
can't send it.

ESM on the FES: The Queue information for the BES SMTP virtual server says
"Destination server does not exist".

ESM on the BES can't retrieve queue information on the FES SMTP virtual
server (gives error: Exchange System Manager failed to retrieve queues for
the SMTP Virtual Server (error code = 0x800706D9). Check the event log and
verify that the required services are running.)

There are no errors in the event logs on both servers.
The SMTP service is running on the both servers.
Both servers can use nslookup to get correct addresses.
Both servers can ping one another.
I can use telnet on the FES to connect to the SMTP server on the BES and
manually create a message.


Please help, I feel like I'm just going in circles.
.



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