Re: big problem with email

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On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:15:58 -0700 (PDT), Mike_in_Nebraska
<mike_webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mar 19, 9:08 am, Jim Behning SBS MVP
<jimbehn...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
So now mail.whoopingcrane.org/remote is working. But telnet
mail.whoopingcrane.org 25 is not. You need to go to a workstation and
get to a command prompt. type telnet servername 25 to see if it
answers. If it works internally then you can continue with
troubleshooting. Note that you are telneting the internal name to see
if the Exchange server is happy. If it is happy internally then you
can procede to why things are not happy externally.

On external issues if you are running ISA 2004 you should have SP3 for
ISA installed. There are also some post Server 2003 patches for
offloading issues thatmight cause some problem.

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:45:09 -0700 (PDT), Mike_in_Nebraska





<mike_w...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 19, 8:30 am, "Larry Struckmeyer" <lstruckmeyer(at)mis-
wizards(dot)com> wrote:
As Jim has pointed out, your server is not listening on 3389, and 25 is not
responding normally.  RWW is not working and OWA is not working.

This points to the router / firewall as the culprit, but if this were my
server I would uninstall ISA server via Add/Remove, then run the CEICW
again.  If this does not fix it, you will have to re visit the ports and
forwarding on the routers/firewalls/isp managed devices.

Or, you could do it the other way round.  <g>

Good idea!
Just checked my router and verified that ports 25 and 3389 are open to
the server.  Also went into CEICW and made a change: I had
"whoopingcrane.org" for the certificate and "mail.whoopingcrane.org"
as the email domain; I switched them, ran CEICW once again (got an
error the first time on Firewall configuration), re-entered the
authentication for the dyndns.org account in ESM.  I'll let it run for
a bit.  If nothing happens, I'll uninstall ISA, reboot, run CEICW and
see if it works, then install ISA and it's SP's, rebooting for each,
and see if it works then.
The ISP router was put in about 4 months ago and all worked well.
Don't recall ever telling them, or being asked, about what ports I
needed open.  Could they have closed 25 &/or 3389?

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Telnet from my workstation worked fine. What do you recommend now?
Uninstall ISA?
If it was me I would attach a workstation to the same router the
external nic of the SBS is installed on. If your SBS external nic is
at 192.168.1.2 and the laptop/workstation attached to your router it
should have an ip of 192.168.1.3 or maybe 1.100. I would then telnet
to 192.168.1.2 25 to see if it answers. With this test you are testing
to see if ISA is causing problems. Actually I would attach a crossover
cable from my laptop to the server external nic and test. This
eliminates your router from the test. Then I would test with the
router in the picture and keep working until I figure out where the
problem is. I keep working until I get to the problem. I will assum
that you did no configuring in ISA as the SBS connect to the internet
wizard is all you have to do to get ISA working.

In Exchange under servers/servername/protocols/default smtp virtual
server properties the ip address hould be all unassigned.
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