Re: Reading Exchange Server Databases

From: Merv Porter [SBS-MVP] (mwport_at_no_spam_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/10/04 

Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 09:06:25 -0500

> <3bears.biz #5.5.0 smtp;554 ac2@???.net>: Relay access denied

Your ISP may require authentication when sending mail to (through) them.
Try setting up a Smarthost for that particular domain and on the in the
Properties for the new Smarthost connector you create, go to the Advanced
Tab click on Outbound Security | Basic Authentication and enter your primary
username and password for the Internet Access account with your ISP.

DNS vs. Smarthost
http://www.sbslinks.com/DNS_Smarthost.htm 

-- 
Merv  Porter  [SBS MVP]
===================================
"Al Christoph" <ac2@too.net> wrote in message
news:uCvzrlyxEHA.2316@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Merv, Thanks for the reply. You wrote: 'I suspect they were bounced back
to
> the "postmaster" at your domain
> (generally this is the Administrator account).'
>
> Now for more than you want to know:-)))
>
> They were in fact fired back and I got them in Outlook because I have the
> admin account as my Outlook email account and get both stuff from the
system
> and stuff from a POP3 connecter (my very first email address, still in
use)
> there. (I use OE for my regular email for obscure reasons.)
>
> Tried your suggestion. OWA shows NOTHING in the inbox for the
administrator.
> (Read or Unread!)
>
> The problem in Outlook is that the associated icons are strange.
> 1) There is a paper clip indicating an attachment, but with the way
Outlook
> seems to work, I can't see it as a separate attachment. If I could I might
> be a happy camper.
>
> 2) The icon in the type column is not an envelope but a red curving arrow
on
> the left and a set of wavy lines on the right that look like an old style
> postmark. A search on help did not give a key to the icons. (Lots of
> companys starting with MS need to hire me to advise them on what is really
> needed in a help file:-)))) Interestingly the icon icon (yep that's what
> it's called) doesn't show up in the dialog that allows you to mange the
> columns so I can't change it to text!
>
> 3) When I go the View menu and look for options, it is not present so
there
> is no way I can read the headers that way. (That technique works with the
> regular envelope type icon.)
>
> Here is what I do see in Outlook:
> Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.
> Subject: System Up Time Alert on AC2M6
> Sent: 10/30/04 6:10 PM
> The following recipient(s) could not be reached:
> ac2@t???.net on 10/30/04 6:10 PM
> There was a SMTP communication problem with the recipient's email server.
> Please contact your system administrator.
> <3bears.biz #5.5.0 smtp;554 ac2@???.net>: Relay access denied
>
> What I want is the message that bounced so that I can forward it and
> especially its headers to ???.net (my web / email hosting company) and get
> them to tell me what I need to do to get them to accept alerts from the
> server.
>
> So my question remains what tools are there out their that allow you to
look
> into the archives on the server. Certainly there must be some in order to
do
> what I call the "hang em" report. That's the report you run when you want
to
> fire someone and need an excuse other than the real one. Years ago I wrote
a
> program to dump the phone system records for a company for just that
> purpose:-))))
>
> So how does one do a forensic dump of the Exchange
> DB's????????????????????????
>
> Alternatively what are all the things I need to check in SBS 2003 to solve
> the relay access denied problem????
> (The server looks to the rest of the world like too.ath.cx with a dynamic
IP
> address. Inside its 3bears.local. Somehow or another 3bears.biz - the url
of
> my externally hosted web site - also shows up in various places.)
>
> Incidentally, if I use Outlook / Exchange to send a message to
ac2@???.net,
> it gets through just fine. UGH!!!!!
>
> Regards,
> Al
>
> "Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]" <mwport@no_spam_hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:uwqED0sxEHA.392@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> >I suspect they were bounced back to the "postmaster" at your domain
> > (generally this is the Administrator account).  You can fire up Internet
> > Explorer to get to the Companyweb homepage and then, on the right side
of
> > the page, click Remote Email Access.  This gets you to OWA (Outlook Web
> > Access).  From there, log on as Administrator.
> >
> > Is this what you wanted?
> >
> > -- 
> > Merv  Porter  [SBS MVP]
> > ===================================
> >
> > "Al Christoph" <ac2@too.net> wrote in message
> > news:eAv6EyrxEHA.1188@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> >> What tool do I, as owner / administrator / deus ex machina  use to read
> >> individual messages in my SBS 2003 Exchange server databases? In
> > particular
> >> I need to track down alerts that were sent presumably through exchanged
> > but
> >> were bounced by the receiving ISP.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Al
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>

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