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Delivery is weird

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weescotty

IS-IT--Management
Oct 30, 2002
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AU
Set up exchange and OWA. Whenever I send an email to my account lets say anyone@thismx.com and then I go to another P.C. to access it, it does not arrive on that acccount rather on my ISP's email account e.g. anyone@theirmx.com.
Any ideas?

Thanks
 
* Check for what email-domain your exchange server is setup.

(using receipant policy)

* Are you using an smtp-mailfeed for your emaildomain ?? (ie. all mail addressed to thismx.com is directly send to your exchange server)

* If you use SMTP, check if your provider has entered a correct MX-record in their DNS-servers for your domain.

You can check this using nslookup from any PC which can connect to the internet :

- open dos box
- nslookup
- enter "set type = mx"
- enter "your emaildomain"
- this replies with your name and IP-address of your mailserver with a cost of 10, and normally also the IP-address of your provider with a higher cost (eg. 50)

THis means that your mailserver is responsible for the email-domain, but if your mail-server is not up-and-running, mail is delivered to the provider.

Regards,

Peter
 
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