Re: Unable to Receive Email from the internet

On May 1, 9:43 am, "Bharat Suneja [MVP]" <bha...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've now added a send connector for the internet and am able to send
email to a yahoo account. I'm very close at this point! I just need to
get inbound email running!

1) Is your server reachable from the internet on SMTP port (tcp port 25)?
Test from outside your firewall:
telnet x.x.x.x 25
(x.x.x.x is the external IP address of your server).
- Most firewalls allow you to map an internal IP address to an external
one - known as Network Address Translation (NAT), and allow inbound SMTP
traffic to ther server - requires creating an access rule on the firewall.

2) External DNS Zone:
- Need an A record that maps the external FQDN of the server (e.g.
exchange.yourdomain.com) to the external IP address.
- A MX record that points to the above A record.
To test - from outside your firewall:
nslookup -type=MX yourdomain.com
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Bharat Suneja
MVP - Exchangewww.zenprise.com
NEW blog location:
exchangepedia.com/blog
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"hooutoo" <hoou...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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On Apr 30, 1:55 pm, hooutoo <hoou...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Apr 30, 11:14 am, "Bharat Suneja [MVP]" <bha...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This may help:
Exchange Server 2007: internet email without Edge
servershttp://exchangepedia.com/blog/2006/07/exchange-server-2007-internet-e...

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Bharat Suneja
MVP - Exchangewww.zenprise.com
NEW blog location:
exchangepedia.com/blog
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"hooutoo" <hoou...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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Please bear with me as I'm fairly inexperienced with Exchange. I've
just installed Exchange 2007 on a new install of Longhorn Server
Beta3. It seemed to install fairly clean. I've create a couple of
mailboxes for two domain admin users and am able to email between the
two locally. The problem is I'm unable to email to the internet,
example - x...@xxxxxxxxx, or receive any email from the outside.

Any suggestion would be greatly appreciate on where to start.

Thanks in advance

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Bharat.. Thanks for the tip. I'm now able to telnet to port 25 with
"telnet mail.myserver.com 25". Below are the results and as you can
see I'm running into a RELAY problem.
===============================================================
telnet mail.myserver.com 25

220 server.myserver.local Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service ready at Mon,
30 Apr
2007 13:19:19 -0400
helo server.myserver.local
250 server.myserver.local Hello [70.88.39.141]
mail from:s...@xxxxxxxxxxxx
250 2.1.0 Sender OK
rcpt to:shol...@xxxxxxxxxxxx
550 5.7.1 Unable to relay
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I've googled "550 5.7.1 Unable to relay" and now beleive there is some
sort of policy problem and exchange is therefore unable to relay to
the Recipent. I'm just wonder is this has something to do with
relaying from "s...@xxxxxxxxxxxx" to "s...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx". Or/and
do I need and internal relay domain.

Again, any suggestions would be helpfull.
Steve- Hide quoted text -

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I've now added a send connector for the internet and am able to send
email to a yahoo account. I'm very close at this point! I just need to
get inbound email running!

Steve- Hide quoted text -

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I'm now able to use "telnet mail.mydomain.com 25" from behind the
firewall to send a message to user@xxxxxxxxxxxxx So telnet is
resolving the address for mail.mydomain.com via dns at godaddy which
is who I use. I'm unable to try it outside the firewall as I don't
have access to a computer on the outside. I'm thinking now your
suggestion of a firewall problem is looking pretty accurate. I'm
looking at the firewall inbound rules on my LHS. Do you know of any
other way to check this?

Steve

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