Re: Having trouble relaying

From: Patrick Genova [MSFT] (pgenova_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/19/04 

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 07:42:09 -0500

Hi Todd,

I am taking it you configured the remote domain on the IIS Server and then
set it to relay to the IP of the Exchange Server. If the event 4000's are
all pointing to the Exchange IP then check to see if there is a connection
problem between the 2 Servers. If you have a router of firewall between them
check the logs on here.

Hope this helps, 

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"todd" <fatheree21@NOcomcastSPAM.net> wrote in message
news:ujKMZ%23XDEHA.3152@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> We use MailEssentials from GFI to filter spam.  Since our mail server runs
> Exchange 5.5 on Win2K (don't ask), we have to run MailEssentials on a
> different machine and relay the mail.  I have a Win2K machine running an
> SMTP Virtual Server sitting in a DMZ.  The DMZ machine is configured to
> relay incoming mail to the Exchange 5.5 server.  This works mostly fine.
> However, I get quite a few event ID 4000 logged on the relay machine.  The
> source is smtpsvc and the description is
>
> "Message delivery to the remote domain 'domainname.net' failed for the
> following reason: The remote server did not respond to a connection
> attempt."
>
> Now, I'd say there is no general kind of failure since most messages are
> delivered fine.  I just updated the relay machine to Win2K SP4.  The
> Exchange 5.5 machine has Exchange SP4.  I've been googling through the
> newsgroup archives with no success.  I'm open to any suggestions.
>
> todd
>
>

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