Re: Intersite mail transfer not working

Nadia,

I have a couple of questions to ask here...

1. When you do a telnet from one site to another on port 25, what is
the banner that you get ? How does the banner look like ? Paste a
sample copy of it here.
2. Once mail enters the RGC Queue, under what status do the mails get
queued ?
3. Is this is a Cisco VPN with a PIX FW in between ?

Regards
Randy

On Apr 17, 11:58 am, Nadia <N...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,

I'm having a problem with mail transferring from one of my sites to another.
The two offices are connected with a VPN tunnel, which is working just fine
(I can remote desktop, telnet, or use any network service normally). I'm
using Win2k3 Server on active directory, and Exchange 2003 Standard.

The two sites are created as two routing groups, there is a server on each
site and in each group. Problem is, SMTP mail is being routed to the routing
group connector on both sites, but it's just sitting there and not
transferring.

Here's what I've tried (without a successful resolution) so far...

- Deleted and recreated routing groups/connectors
- Used Best Practises tool, found a few errors such as security inheritance
which have been fixed
- run SMTPDiag from both exchange server desktops and from my workstation
(which is on yet another subnet), all lights are green.
- sent mail via telnet in both directions, this mail goes into the queue
with the rest of the mail and waits.

I've checked mailbox size limitations, disk space, message size limitations
and all of that is ok. Delivery schedule is set to always send and is for
24hours marked blue.

Mail on both sites works locally without any problems. I'm also getting an
"access denied" to WMI logging, but I don't think that's related. I've
checked my firewall and it's not blocking traffic between mail servers (in
any case I can telnet:25 across). There are not 3rd party products using port
25.

Any suggestions?


.

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