Recent content by ehartle

Hey all, My server is having trouble sending mail to a couple of random domains. Everything is set properly on my end but when I query the MX record of the destination domains that I can't send to, they all have an IP address for their MX record instead of a FQDN. Is that the reason my...

backfill? please explain further... I'm following this thread because I'm having the same problem: 6 exchange servers in one domain connected by relatively slow links (144k, 256k, etc.) Most of the time it's fine but several times a day, mail traffic swamps the available bandwidth for 15 or...

Does your mail go out with the gulfcoast.local address as the from: address? If so you need to modify your recipient policy so that the gulfcoastinc.com domain is your primary smtp address. This could be causing problems if the recipient mail server is doing reverse lookup for incoming...

hmmm. Try as administrator (if that account is mail-enabled) and see if it might be a permissions issue. Also in Exchange System Manager, under the http protocol, make sure everything looks right in there regarding permissions and authentication types. And make sure that the http protocol is...

Quick question here.... I'm going to have 6 exchange 2000 servers set up as one Admin Group, Routing Group and Site. The servers are in 6 different cities connected by high speed WAN. OWA will point to the Master server in corporate office. How is it supposed to work when a user who exists...

You should check IIS on the exchange server to make sure that you are using only Basic Authentication on the Exchange virtual directory. All other virtual directories associated with exchange (Exadmin, Exchweb, Public, etc) should not be set to use SSL and should use basic authentication as...

Are GW and EX sharing the same SMTP domain? If so, then which one of them is authoritative for the domain? Sounds like Exchange is authoritative and you're getting NDR's from Exchange cuz it doesn't know about the users on GW. If that's the case, check MS knowledge base for articles 321721...

My default documents are index.html, default.htm, default.asp, index.htm, default.aspx. Doesn't sound like a document problem to me though. Can you access a users mailbox from the Exchange server with the url http://server/exchange/username ? Earle

Well, one answer would be to use Public Folders for the shared Contacts list and then neither user would need permissions to view the other user's personal contacts. I wasn't clear from your post whether you were using public folders or not. Earle

Usually, you can use your isp's mail host i.e. smtp.bellsouth.net but it shouldn't be required. I've seen some installs on dsl circuits that could only send if they used a smart host.

Well it seems to be an RPC failure. These NT4 BDC's have a dns domain specified to be the email domain and not the AD domain name. It can be fixed with proper lmhosts entries until the other servers are 2k

are you forwarding your outbound emails to a SMART host or using DNS to route outbound? Also is your mx record correct and can you telnet in from the outside on port 25?

Originally, the setup was 6 5.5 servers in one Exchange site (different physical sites, though) all running on NT4. All mail comes into server1 and got delivered to the other 5.5 servers as needed but each server has it's own internet mail connector. In fact, under Connectors in 5.5 admin...

did you republish the server in ISA?

This sounds like normal Exchange 2000 memory usage to me. I have seen this issue on almost every single Exchange 2000 server. How much memory it uses is relative, somewhat, to the size of the databases. It is a little disconcerting when you first see it, though. Exchange is supposed to...