Re: SMTP will not connect

Thanks for your reply.

There is no LAN. This webserver is outside of my office LAN.
I have no Idea what OWA is.
The email addresses I'm setting up are partly for friends and family, and a
few business users - for the most part they will use OE, not Outlook.
I have no idea how to see what's in the (microsoft software) firewall, there
is no "firewall" icon anywhere. Perhaps it's named something else.
I have no idea what ISA is.
There are no ports to forward, the server is on it's own IP address with no
router or hardware firewall.

The server allows email sending and it receives emails. It just won't let
me log in to check them. It's rejecting all my passwords. I think it's
rejecting all connections as well, and OE is just complaining because it
can't authenticate.

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>telnet 209software.com 25
Connecting To 209software.com...Could not open a connection to host on port
25 : Connect failed
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"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
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>
>
> In news:uGxKuHcoFHA.2920@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> Bryan Valencia <msng.some_yahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
> > I just got WIN2003 SBS and I cannot get exchange to be a real email
> > server.
> >
> > No matter what I do, it always rejects my username and password.
>
> That doesn't mean Exchange isn't being a mail server.
>
> > I'm
> > trying to use Outlook express over the internet to connect to my
> > email server.
>
> Can you connect via OWA? Outlook on the LAN?
>
> > I have set up the pop3 accounts with passwords, but
> > exchange will not accept external logins.
>
> What's in your firewall? You have to forward port 110 to your server's LAN
> IP...if you use ISA, there are other things to do.
> >
> > I have tried with secured password authentication (SPA) and without
> > SPA, nothing helps. Here are the black holes of Microsoft Exchange
> > that I don't understand that might be related to this problem.
> >
> > 1. group policies
> >
> > I get loads of these in my event logs:
> > ---
> > Windows cannot query for the list of Group Policy objects. Check the
> > event log for possible messages previously logged by the policy
> > engine that describes the reason for this.
> >
> > For more information, see Help and Support Center at
> > http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
> > ---
> > if I click the help link it gets me to a help page that says:
> >
> > "At the command prompt, type netdiag, and note any errors.
> > Those errors usually have to be resolved before Group Policy
> > processing can continue."
> >
> > typing "netdiag" gives
> >
> > "'netdiag' is not recognized as an internal or external
> > command, operable program or batch file."
>
> Not an Exchange question; best asked in a W2003 group or in
> microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs. That said, netdiag is part of the
> support tools - you can download or install from CD. Google on Microsoft's
> website for netdiag.
> Fist thing, though, is to make sure your clients point only at the SBS
> server's LAN IP for DNS, and no external DNS servers....same with the SBS
> box itself.
>
> >
> > 2. Message Store
> > I have no idea what this is, or how it might be configured or
> > misconfigured
>
> Your message store is your mailbox/database, but I don't know the context
> for what you refer to.
> >
> > 3. Firewall
> > I got Outlook Express to connect once running on the mail server
> > itself, which tells me it might be a MS firewall issue. However,
> > there is no "Firewall" app to open/configure/disable, so I have no
> > clue how to check it.
>
> Do you have a hardware appliance? Two NICs in the server, running either
the
> basic Windows server firewall, or ISA?
>
> This said, OE/POP isn't the best way to access your server remotely
anyway.
> OWA or Outlook are much better. The SBS newsgroup I referred to above will
> be helpful.
>
>


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