Re: SMTP will not connect

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FYI - here was the problem:

There was a discrepancy in the naming of the internal domain in the server.
Kind of a Microsoft identity crisis of sorts.



"Bryan Valencia" <msng.some_yahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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. I'm
trying
> to use Outlook express over the internet to connect to my email server.
I
> have set up the pop3 accounts with passwords, but exchange will not accept
> external logins.
>
> 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."
>
> 2. Message Store
> I have no idea what this is, or how it might be configured or
> misconfigured
>
> 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.
>
>
>


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