Re: Need help finding tools to diagnose SBS/Exchange prob...

No need for an internal MX record. The public one does the job

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Costas


"Jim Graue" <JimGraue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:CC6AD630-0788-4D1D-9F78-E5FC15E7ECD7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello, Costas:

Thanks for your reply.


My replies/comments are in-lne, below:

"Costas" wrote:

If you don't have an MX record in the external DNS, you wouldn't be able to
receive emails.

When you say, "external DNS," I think Internet's DNS, not my system's.
Without an MX record registered with our Webhosting service, of course we
would not be able to receive e-mail; servers wouldn't know where to find our
mail server.

What of the situation where DNS, as configured on SBS, did not have an MX
record? What would be the result?

Try going through the logs and see what is happening to the
messages you try to sent. The should give clues about the problem

I am going to hit them up NOW. This is getting critical. I appreciate your
help.

Best regards,

Jim

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