RE: email, exchange server

Hello Nigel,

Thank you for posting in the SBS newsgroup.

Before we go any further, please let me know the following information so
that we can understand your situation more clearly.

1. What's your email domain?

2. What's the exact problem symptom? Can I assume you would like to use
mail.alphaschool.org to relay email from yahoo?

3. As the error message "556 This system is not configured to relay for
you", please make sure if you have permission to use mail.alphaschool.org
to relay email.

4. If the mail.alphaschool.org is ISP smarthost, it seems the smarthost is
required to authentication. Please contact the Smart host provider to see
if the authentication is required. If so, you could use the following steps
to configure your SMTP connector.

a. Right click Small Business SMTP Connector > Properties

b. Select General tab > select "Forward all mail through this connector to
the following smart hosts" (correct ISP mail server is listed)

c. Select Advanced tab > click Outbound Security > select "Basic
authentication" and entered the user name and password supplied by the ISP

If it still does not work, you may need to configure your SMTP virtual
server with same settings.

a. Open Exchange System Manager.

b. Navigate to Servers\ServerName\Protocols\SMTP\Default SMTP virtual
server.

c. Right-click it and choose 'Properties'. In the Delivery tab, please
click Outbound Security button.

d. You need to enable "Basic Authentication" on the Virtual Server (instead
of the SMTP connector) in question. This requires usernames and password be
base64 encoded.

5. If you would like to configure your Exchange Server to enable the SMTP
open-relaying, please refer to the following information:

Important: We strongly recommend you don't enable the SMTP open-relaying,
it will causes many unsolicited commercial e-mail messages, or spam.

I. Configure the SMTP Virtual Server to allow to mail relay. Let's try the
following steps:

a. Start Exchange System Manager.

b. Expand the organization_name object, and then expand the Servers node.
Expand the server_name object of the server on which you want to prevent
mail relay, and then expand the Protocols node.

c. Expand the SMTP node, right-click the virtual SMTP server on which you
allow to mail relay, and then click Properties.

d. Click the Access tab, and then click Relay.

e. Uncheck "Allow all computers which successfully authenticate to relay,
regardless of the list above" option.

f. Choose "Only the list below" and then click Add.

g. Type the IP address you want to give permission to and then click OK

h. Click Users, click Add to add the specific user account and check the
Allow Relay Permission and Submit Permission check box.

i. Click OK and then close the Default SMTP Virtual Server Properties
dialog box to test the issue.

II. Configure the SmallBusiness SMTP Connector, follow these steps:

a. In the Exchange System Manager, expand Connectors, and then locate the
SmallBusiness SMTP Connector.

b. Right-click the SmallBusiness SMTP connector (or on the connector name
that you manually created), and then click Properties.

c. Click the Address Space tab.

d. Check the settings like below:
- Address Space -Type: SMTP
- Address: *
- Cost: 1
- The Connector Scope is Entire Organization.
- Allow messages to be routed to these domains is selected.

III. Configure the ISA Server to allow open relay if the following
conditions are true:

a. ISA Server is configured with a server publishing rule for the SMTP
protocol.

b. 127.0.0.1 is in the list of IP addresses that are allowed to relay in
the properties of the default SMTP Virtual Server.

IV. To verify whether the Exchange Server is an open SMTP relay:

>From the remote client, follow these steps:

a. Click Start, click Run, type telnet, and then click OK.

b. At the Telnet command prompt, type set local_echo, and then press ENTER.

c. At the Telnet command prompt, type open sbs-IP-address 25, and then
press ENTER (where sbs-IP-address is the external public IP address of the
Small Business Server computer).

The output is similar to the following:
220 server.smallbusiness.local Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version:
5.0.2195.4905 ready at "date" -0500
Note The "Version" reference may vary, depending on the version of Small
Business Server.

d. Type ehlo anydomain.com, and then press ENTER (where anydomain is not
the Small Business Server computer's e-mail domain. Make sure that the last
line is:
250 OK

e. Type mail from:youremail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, and then press ENTER (where
youremail@anydomain is an SMTP address that is not hosted on the Small
Business Server computer). Make sure that the result is:
250 2.1.0 youremail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx OK

f. Type rcpt to:user@xxxxxxxx, and then press ENTER (where user@spam is
not your e-mail domain). Make sure that the result is one of the following
two responses:
250 2.1.5 user@xxxxxxxx
If the result is "250 2.1.5 user@xxxxxxxx," the Exchange server is an open
SMTP relay.

Additional information:

895853 How to troubleshoot mail relay issues in Exchange Server 2003 and in
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=895853

324958 How to block open SMTP relaying and clean up Exchange Server SMTP
queues
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=324958

I appreciate your time and cooperation. If anything is unclear, please feel
free to let me know. I am looking forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,

Nathan Liu (MSFT)
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>I have sbs 03 prem edt. adn I used zoneedit.com to see if I'm up and
running.
>Here are the results.
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>SMTP Connection:
>OK, connected to mail.alphaschool.org...
>< 220 mail11.intermedia.net ESMTP
>> HELO edit.dnsvr.com
>< 250 mail11.intermedia.net
>> MAIL FROM:<nigelcourtney@xxxxxxxxx>
>< 250 ok
>> RCPT TO:<ncourtney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>< 556 This system is not configured to relay for you
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>Where do I find the relay to be confiigured so I can email from yahoo?
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>Thanks in advance.
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