Re: Exchange Help Please!

Port 25 is not being forwarded to your external NIC on your public IP. Your
A record and MX are correct. Either your ISP or the modem/router are blockng
port 25 inbound.

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Frank McCallister SBS MVP
COMPUMAC
"Wolarus" <wolarus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Oo9Aaa6vFHA.464@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> PROBLEM: CANNOT RECEIVE EMAIL FROM THE INTERNET TO EXCHANGE SERVER
> all mail goes to the backup MX - took it out temporarily and that just
> gives NDRs
> I've been at this for three days just trying to get the exchange server to
> recieve mail but I'm stuck and need some things to try.
> ________________________________________________________________________
> SYSTEM: SBS 2003 Standard SP1
> Dell PowerEdge 1800 - dual Zeon 3.2 ht - 1 gig RAM - RAID 5 =300 gig
> 2 NIC cards - server side 192.168.16.2 - wild side 216.19.xx.115
> _________________________________________________________________________
> I've taken out all equipment between internet and the seconf NIC to get
> this going (Iwill deal with the firewall after I figure out what's wrong)
> _________________________________________________________________________
> Website allows me to change my own DNS records for the domain wolaz.com
> I've added the records to point mail.wolaz.com at 216.19.xx.115
>
> wolaz.com. IN MX 10 mail.wolaz.com
> mail IN A 216.19.xx.115
>
> I've used the mail system for the website as the backup MX
> _________________________________________________________________________
>
> ----------------------------------WHAT I'VE
> DONE------------------------------------------
> _________________________________________________________________________
> Ran the CEICW the folowing settings with no Problems
> 1 - Direct Connection to Internet
> 2 - Broadband NIC to External NIC
> Network NIC to internal NIC
> 3 - IP - SUBnet - Gateway all from the ISP
> DNS from my ISP (not Web Hosting Provider)
> 4 - Firewall enabled (with email open)
> 5 - Allow Access only to Outlook Web Access
> 6 - Web Certificate [mww.wola.com] (alias to get to Outlook web Access)
> 7- Enable Internet E-mail
> 8 - Use DNS to Route (this Works!)
> 9 - Use Excahnge - Email is directed to the server
> 10 - Email domain name [wolaz.com]
> 11 - Attacments to a local directory
> _____________________________________________________________________
> SMTPDIAG
> Checks out
> _____________________________________________________________________
> PortReporter says I'm listening on 25 TCP but not UDP
> _____________________________________________________________________
> DNS REPORT cannot connect to the port 25
> _____________________________________________________________________
> Telnet Local wolaz.com 25 connects
> Telnet External wolaz.com 25 WIL NOT CONNECT
> Telnet External mail.wolaz.com 25 connects
> _____________________________________________________________________
> Thank You in Advance for any help
> Jeff
>
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