Re: Outgoing mail problem. Telnet issue?

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Ok, so if I understand you correctly, Exchange forwards all mail to Surfcontrol and then Surfcontrol sends the mail out. Secondly when telneting to other hosts from Surfcontrol, you cannot make a successful connection.

If that is the case, I would ask,
Can you make a successful connection from the Exchange server directly when using Telnet?
If so, have you tried for testing purposes having Exchange send emails directly, thus bypassing Surfcontrol.

If you are successful in connecting / sending directly from Exchange, contact Surfcontrol for support.

"Wolfman" <Wolfman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:6363C840-869D-4532-B46A-B08993325221@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Guys,

For some reason our mail server - SBS2000 running the Exchange that comes
with SBS2000 - is having problems. Our setup is that our external mail goes
through SurfControl e-mail filter which sits on port 25 with exchange on 26.

In the last few days we haven't been able to send e-mails. The errors that
show in SurfControl is "Failed to connect to host....." When using the
command prompt and using the command "telnet mx1.hotmail.com 25" that also
fails. I am however able to do that on other servers and PCs.

When rebooting the server for the first few minutes after that reboot we are
able to send mail but then something happens and suddenly it is unable to
connect to anyone's mail server. It doesn't matter where the mail is heading
for, no receiving mail server will accept the telnet session whereas minutes
before it would.

Has anyone got any ideas what is causing this? It only started the other day
after a reboot.

--
Regards,
Ash.

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