Re: Exchange not receiving inboud emails

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Hi Les,

My main issue has now been resolved, thank you very much. I can now receive
external emails. The problem was that the IP address I was using (which I got
from my landlord) was a private IP address. This would have been obvious to a
techie. What I didn't know was that I had access to the internet via my
landlord's LAN.

I have now purchased a public IP address from my landlord which is now
registered at my name host, Yahoo. The private IP address still resides on my
SBS but my landlord has has mapped the public IP to the private one on my
server. I'm sure it all makes sense to you!

I have rerun the dnsreport and it does look better now. The reports still
complains about Reverse DNS enteries for MX records but apparently there is
nothing I can do about it within SBS. Again my landlord is going to create
this records.

All the other complaints on the DNS report is to do with my name host Yahoo
and I'm going to take them up with Yahoo.

Finally, thanks for pointing out the configuration error of my XP
workstation. I shall try and fix that in the New Year. The main thing now is
that I can now move forward at last!

Thanks again.

Reuben

"Les Connor [SBS Community Member - SBS M" wrote:

> Hi Rueben,
>
> You've got issues.
>
> http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=gemsburg.com
>
> Aside from that, your XP workstation has an IP that would by default be in
> the SBS DHCP exclusion range. That's not related to the mail issues, but is
> an indicator that you've not followed the SBS setup and configuration
> wizards. On that basis, it's really not possible to guess what state of
> configuration the balance of the server configuration is in.
>
> You need some professional help with this, and I'm not sure the newsgroup
> setting is the place to get it in a timely manner - especially in the next
> few days.
>
> --
> Les Connor [SBS Community Member - SBS MVP]
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> SBS Rocks !
> ----------------------
> "Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I'll remember. Involve me and I'll
> understand." - Confucius
>
>
> "reuben_oni" <reubenoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:749FC01E-AC41-4C6A-B9C7-48E36DBEDB6F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hi Les,
> >
> > My domain name is www.gemsburg.com. Here is the result of ipconfig /all on
> > the server:
> > "Ethernet adapter Network connection:
> > Description: Realtel RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet
> > Physical Address:00-10-A7-17-BA-D0
> > DHCP Enabled: No
> > IP Address: 10-8-7-1
> > Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
> > Default Gateway: Blank (no information)
> > DNS Server: 192.168.16.2
> > Primary WINS Server: 192.168.16.2
> > NetBIOS over Tcpip: Disabled
> >
> > Ethernet adapter Server Local Area Connection
> > Description: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
> > Physical Address: 00-14-2A-1A-AC-F9
> > DHCP Enabled: No
> > IP Address: 192.168.16.2
> > Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
> > Default Gateway: Blank (no information)
> > DNS Server: 192.168.16.2
> > Primary WINS Server: 192.168.16.2
> >
> > I tried to do the same test on the only workstation but could not find the
> > Command Prompt as it is running on Windows XP. However checking the
> > network
> > connections, the workstations has 2 network adapters but one is disabled
> > and
> > not connected to anything. The one that is enabled has the following
> > information:
> >
> > Description: Realtel RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet
> > Physical Address: (Don't know where to find that)
> > DHCP Enabled: Blank (no information)
> > IP Address: 192.168.16.4
> > Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
> > Default Gateway: 192.168.16.2
> > DNS Server: 192.168.16.2
> > Primary WINS Server: Blank (no information)
> >
> > Additional information:
> > At least these user accounts are set up on the Server:
> > 1) Administrator with email address as Administrator@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 2) Reuben Oni with email address as reuben.oni@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > I have sent out emails to my POP3 email account outside the system from
> > both
> > accounts and have not been able to receive any emails to them. Even when I
> > respond from my POP3 email account outside the system to emails from these
> > two accounts, I still get an error saying that these accounts do not
> > exist.
> > Well, if they can send out emails, they do exist in my view!
> >
> > I also exchange internal emails between these 2 accounts without any
> > problems.
> >
> > If you need any more information, please do let me know.
> >
> > Reuben
> >
> >
> > "Les Connor [SBS Community Member - SBS M" wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Reuben,
> >>
> >> If you don't mind posting your domain name, we'll see what we can
> >> discover.
> >>
> >> Also, post the result of "ipconfig /all" run at both the server and one
> >> workstation.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Les Connor [SBS Community Member - SBS MVP]
> >> -----------------------------------------------------------
> >> SBS Rocks !
> >> ----------------------
> >> "Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I'll remember. Involve me and I'll
> >> understand." - Confucius
> >>
> >>
> >> "reuben_oni" <reubenoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >> news:4CF42C5B-14AA-4D7A-B864-6CC08F174BE2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> > Dear All,
> >> >
> >> > I'm starting this new thread basically following up on another one
> >> > started
> >> > by Thomas "Can not get incoming e-mail after install of Exchange 2003
> >> > SP2
> >> > in
> >> > Windows Small Business Server 2003". You can follow that thread from
> >> > here:[http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/dgbrowser/en-us/default.mspx?&query=receiving+external+email&lang=en&cr=US&guid=&sloc=en-us&dg=microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs&p=1&tid=56d7e410-7c62-45f9-aff5-db9adda0eaf8&mid=56d7e410-7c62-45f9-aff5-db9adda0eaf8].
> >> >
> >> > Basically I am unable to receive incoming SMTP emails into Exchange
> >> > Server
> >> > running on SBS 2003. I've followed all the suggestions of Nathan Liu
> >> > [MSFT]
> >> > from the other thread but no improvement so far.
> >> >
> >> > Inbound messages are bounced back to sender with an error 554 saying
> >> > that
> >> > the recipient has no email account at my domain. That can't be true
> >> > because
> >> > one of the email addresses is set up by default by SBS 2003 at set up
> >> > anyway
> >> > (the one for the Administrator).
> >> >
> >> > Looking forward to a happy end to this problem.
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>
.

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