Re: Will Exchange using nonstandard port cause problems with Sharepoint?
anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 10/05/04
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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 17:41:37 -0700
Ha, the nonstandard port business was already set up that
way. Anyway, turns out the problem was in how I specified
the email server in Sharepoint administration. When I
entered "servername:port" it worked like a champ. Thanks
for your respone though.
Sean
>-----Original Message-----
>Sean,
>
>First you say you would "hate to change anything", but
then go on to talk
>about changing the std outbound port of Exchange.
>;-)
>
>IMHO, doing what Frank suggested has far less impact and
will provide an
>immediate indication if this fixes your problem, rather
than going down the
>path you want to take. And you can do this in baby steps!
>
>First, open up ESM, drill down to Connectors, where you
will find the
>'SmallBusiness SMTP Connector'. If you right click on
this object, and then
>click on Properties, I would suspect you will find the
option 'Use DNS to
>route to each address space...' selected.
>
>Go ahead and Cancel this window, then right click
on 'Connectors', and
>select New > SMTP Connector. What we are going to do is
to setup an
>alternated Connector for sending out mail. You will need
to know the name of
>your ISP's outgoing email system, and the master
accountid and password for
>it (especially if they required outgoing authentication'.
>
>For example., I user Verizon for my DSL/Internet acess,
and theiur outgoing
>email system is simply: outgoing.verizon.net . So, first
I named my new SMTP
>connector 'Verizon', and then I clicked on the 'Forward
all mail option' and
>in the box below I listed 'outgoing.verizon.net'.
>
>Next, click on the Advanced tab, then Outbound
Security, , then Basic
>Authentication, --- and then fill in your master
accountid and password for
>your ISP's mail account.
>
>Finally, click on the Address space tab. Here you can
list specific email
>address domains of people you send email to. Let's say,
for instance, you
>have several friend with AOL addresses. So click on Add
> SMTP and enter:
>aol.com
>
>Once you close this connector, you have told Exchange---
alright for
>outgoing email to anyone with an AOL email address, use
my ISP (Verizon'
>connector, for everyone else, use my default SmartHost
connector.
>
>Then send one of your AOL buddies an email and see if it
works. If it does,
>then do the following --- delete the new SMTP connector
you just created, go
>back to the SmallBusiness Server SMTP connector, and
switch it from Use DNS
>to Use SmartHost and reenter your ISPO info as you did
before.
>
>--
>Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]
>"The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom
long"
>
>
>"Sean" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:3c0201c4a9b8$edfdb400$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>> Thanks for the response Frank, it may very well be
>> outbound only. However, the mail setup we use now with
no-
>> ip works very well, and I hate to change anything if I
>> don't have to.
>> What I'm more interested in is whether setting Exchange
>> to listen to a different port will cause problems with
>> Sharepoint alerts. We're having a problem with that
now &
>> this is the only thing I can think of.
>> I tried entering the mail servername and the port in
the
>> 2 sharepoint administration web pages, but still have
>> trouble (servername port).
>> I haven't been able to verify that the Sharepoint
setting
>> will recognize the extra parameter of the port. I'm
>> afraid this is going to take longer to figure out than
>> I'd hoped. If you have any further ideas, I'd
appreciate
>> hearing them.
>> Sean
>>
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>Hi Sean
>>>
>>>Are you sure the ISP is blocking 25 inbound or just
>> outbound? Most ISPs
>>>blocking 25 block outbound which affects sending but
not
>> receiving. To test
>>>telnet to your mail.FQDN 25 from outside your network
>> and see if your server
>>>connects. If outbound only you can use Smarthost or
SMTP
>> on another port
>>>using a third party like mailhop outbound from
>> dyndns.org.
>>>
>>>--
>>>Frank McCallister SBS MVP
>>>COMPUMAC
>>>"Sean" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message
>>>news:261a01c4a9a6$9b594280$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>>>> We need to have Exchange listen to a port other than
25
>>>> due to ISP blocking port 25. Will this cause problems
>>>> with Sharepoint alerts? I haven't been able to verify
>>>> this, buit I expect it will. If someone has run into
>> this
>>>> problem, please share.
>>>> Sean
>>>
>>>
>>>.
>>>
>
>
>.
>
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