Re: Internet inbound mail failure.

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From: Patrick Genova [MSFT] (pgenova_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/09/04 

Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 09:16:53 -0400

Hi John,

If you can successfully Telnet into the 5.5 Server and drop off a piece of
mail to the 2003 user the problem may lie outside of Exchange. Do you have a
Firewall or 3rd Party SMTP Gateway that accepts the mail from outside first?
If so look at this for a possible cause. 

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"John" <jsmith@bizsoft.org> wrote in message
news:1764501c418cb$7f37fd60$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> The 5.5 server is giving me the NDR. I can send mail to a
> 2003 recipient from the 5.5 from inside our network
> domain. And I can telnet to the 5.5 and send mail to the
> e2k3. Thanks
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hi John,
> >
> >This should work. Can you tell me which Server is giving
> the NDR? Can you do
> >a Telnet to the 5.5 Server and drop off a piece of mail
> to a 2003 recipient?
> >What happens when you do this?
> >
> >-- 
> >Patrick Genova
> >Pgenova@online.microsoft.com
> >Please do not send mail directly to this alias. This
> alias is for Newsgroup
> >purposes only.
> >This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
> confers no rights.
> >
> >"John" <jsmith@bussoft.org> wrote in message
> >news:1262a01c415c0$88d65af0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> >> I can't receive external internet mail to my new e2k3
> >> exchange. I've configured our old 5.5 to share a common
> >> smtp domain name space and re-route mail as per article
> >> 258203. Our internal mail re-routes just fine but any
> >> internet mail coming to the e2k3 recipients get
> >> returned, "The recipient is not recognized" Any help
> will
> >> be apprecieated. Thanks
> >
> >
> >.
> >

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