Re: Inbound email problem

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What is your correct external public static IP? If its 66.113.136.225 then
your A record for mail is incorrect-it should point to that IP and not
65.101.185.33.

"KC" <kcalfee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Jan 17, 10:33 am, "Steve" <newsgr...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sorry I still don't see what the Qwestoffice email and server have to do
with incoming SMTP traffic for your registered company domain. Perhaps we
need to know what that company domain name is as well as the A and MX
records you have setup.

"KC" <kcal...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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On Jan 16, 9:52 pm, "Steve" <newsgr...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:





What do you mean by "Qwest moved our email to their new servers
(Qwestoffice)" as that should have nothing to do with your incoming SMTP
mail?

"KC" <kcal...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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On Jan 16, 4:55 pm, "Buddy" <bu...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

DNS checks out OK.

Could it be that Qwest is blocking port 25 traffic? Probably not if
outbound mail works.

As a test, change the port that Exchange smtp listens on (and make
sure
you
port forward the new setting to your sbs external nic)

look at:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/274842

When is the last time you ran the CEICW? Maybe you should try that
first.

Thanks,
Buddy G ~

"KC" <kcal...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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On Jan 16, 1:49 pm, "Buddy" <bu...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What is the name of your company domain and what is the public ip
address?
It sounds like they are not matching in DNS.
Can you telnet into your exchange server?
Do you have exchange server antispam or connection filtering
enabled?

Buddy G ~

"KC" <kcal...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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I am running SBS 2003 Standard on a Dell PowerEdge 1800 with 2
NICs.
External NIC is connected to Qwest provided Actiontec GT701WG
modem/
router. I can RWW, I can send email, I can receive pop mail for
our
qwestoffice email addresses. I cannot receive inbound email if it
is
sent to our company domain name address. I have a public static IP
with MX and A records setup. When I used dnsstuff to obtain a dns
report, the report indicated fail at connect to mail servers
(Error:
I
could not complete a connection to any of your mailservers) When I
did an email test I received the error "The mailserver terminated
the
connection before the transaction was complete (state1). This is
not
RFC compliant, and therefore either due to an error, or it may be
the
result of a non-RFC-compliant mailserver or non-RFC-complaint
anti-
spam program.

Any insight on what is creating my problem would be greatly
appreciated.- Hide quoted text -

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company domain: stpaulsumctucson.net
public IP: 65.101.185.33
no connection filtering enabled
Intelligent message filtering gateway blocking - block messages with
SCL rating greater than or equal to 8
Recipient filtering - filter recipients not in the directory
Telnet fails - error - Could not complete connection to host. on port
25: connect failed- Hide quoted text -

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Qwest checked it out and verified that Port 25 had no filtering
assigned. I ran the CEICW yesterday after forwarding ports on the
Actiontec. I might tell you I started having these problems after
Qwest moved our email to their new servers (Qwestoffice) and told me I
needed to change my DNS server at my registrar. The funny thing is,
if I don't use the old primary DSN IP as one of the entries in CEICW
(using it as the alternate) I can't access a lot of internet sites.
Internet access is still at Qwest.net. Don't know if this is any help
or just muddies the water. I'll rerun CEICW tomorrow when I get to
work. In the mean time, I'll read the KB you sent the link for.- Hide
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In Sep 2007 I received an email from qwest.net saying they were
upgrading our qwest.net email service and as a result our email
address ending in qwest.net would end in qwestoffice.net. Our email
accounts were qwest.net accounts with email aliases. Additionally
Qwest indicated I needed to change the DNS servers to the Qwestoffice
servers at my registrar. After I made the change at the registrar I
ran the CEICW and entered the new DNS IP addresses at the appropriate
point in the wizard and my problems began and I havent't been able to
find a solution. Actually all of this didn't happen until the end of
November.- Hide quoted text -

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Being new and network administrator by default I obviously am lacking
the knowledge of how email is sent and received from one server to
another. Qwestoffice.net has what they call a site-control. Under
the stpaulsumctucson.net domain name the DNS manager page has the
following setup: source/record/target

mail A 65.101.185.33
pop A 64.26.60.233
pop.stpaulsumctucson.net A 64.26.60.233
smtp A 64.26.60.233
smtp.stpaulsumctucson.net A 64.26.60.233
stpaulsumctucson.net A 66.113.136.225
stpaulsumctucson.net MX 10 mail.stpaulsumctucson.net
www A 66.113.136.225

I keep referring to Qwestoffice servers because of the above setup.


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