> Hello Gary,
>
> Thank you for posting here.
>
> According to your description, I understand that you cannot send mail to
> your ISP's smarthost. If I have misunderstood the problem, please don't
> hesitate to let me know.
>
> I agree with you, this is mostly like the ISP block SMTP request from the
> dynamic address. Please contact your ISP to confirm it.
>
> Meanwhile, we can run the CEICW on SBS to ensure the configuration on SBS
> is correct:
>
> Go through the follow KB and Rerun CEICW again carefully.
>
> How to configure Internet access in Windows Small Business Server 2003
>
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/825763/en-us>
> Detailed steps for your reference:
>
> 1. Open Server Management.
> 2. Click To Do List.
> 3. Click Connect to the Internet.
> 4. Proceed to the "Firewall" page and select "Enable Firewall".
> 5. On the "Services Configuration" page, make sure that "E-mail" service
> has been checked.
> 6. On the "Web Services Configuration" page, check the web services that
> you want to publish.
> 7. On the "Web Server Certificate" page, choose "Create a new Web server
> certificate" and key in your public domain name in the box.
> 8. On the "Internet E-mail" page, choose "Enable Internet e-mail".
> 9. On the "E-mail Delivery Method" page, choose the 2nd radio box since
> you're using a Smart Host, then key in the IP address of your smart host.
> 10. If you're using POP3 connector, please enable POP3 Connector.
> 11. Key in your e-mail domain name in "Email Domain Name" page.
> 12. Configure POP3 account and scheduling settings, then finish the wizard.
>
> If we cannot resolve the issue after we perform the above steps, please
> kindly help me collect some information for further investigation:
>
> 1. Can you telnet port 25 of Smart Host from SBS when the email hang in the
> queue?
>
> 2. Does the mail from internal to internal work fine?
>
> Hope these steps will give you some help.
>
> Thanks and have a nice day!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Terence Liu(MSFT)
>
> Microsoft CSS Online Newsgroup Support
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> | I have a SBS 2003 R2 system that was a disaster recovery. After resolving
> | some LegacyDN issues to get the Exchange database to work again, I am
> running
> | into mail flow problems to the smarthost ISP. We use a smarthost because
> we
> | have some clients who do not resolve through the local DNS on the server
> | consistently. It is too critical to my client to not get these e-mails
> sent.
> | it has been working with the following configuration. We host the
> Exchange
> | server as the primary Mail Exchanger on a dynamic address with use of a
> | dynalias configuration. It has been working until the ISA connectivity
> | started failing for the smarthost SMTP verification. Now I can get no
> mail to
> | go out through the smarthost. If I go back to strictly DNS, I still get
> the
> | messages stuck in the queue that will not resolve. I was able to telnet
> to
> | the SMTP server of the ISP before this issue came. Now I cannot, but I
> can
> | ping and complete nslookup successfully. Is there an issue on the ISP's
> end
> | that I need to resolve? I think I need to escalate my support with them
> as
> | they are limited in these experiences for a dynamic address.
> | --
> | Gary[ at ]northwindccohio
> |
>
>