Mail in Exchange

[homer15]

hi everyone.
i'm trying to setup my exchange server to handle mail for my domain. i have an offsite hosted website, mycompany.com. i have pointed the mx records of my site to my static dsl connection, and poked a hole in my firewall so that mail coming from the site can get through. i have it all routing to my exchange 2000 server, but it doesn't appear to be picking up mail. any ideas? i can supply more information without a problem.

 

[Zelandakh]

homer, test incoming mail by telnetting to the exchange box from the LAN. Does it come in? If so exchange is ok. If not exchange IMS isn't right.

Then test telnet from outside firewall. If that fails, firewall is at fault.

you need to do telnet mail.yourcompany.com 25 or similar. Should get a 220 reply.

 

[homer15]

testing from ym computer, i got this:
220-venture.vosn.net ESMTP Exim 3.36 #1 Tue, 22 Oct 2002 14:01:39 -0700
220-We do not authorize the use of this system to transport unsolicited,
220 and/or bulk e-mail.

it does have a 220... but i'm not sure if that's the message i was supposed to get.

 

[Zelandakh]

ok, you get a 220. Now you need to use telnet to send yourself a mail. Can't recall the exact syntax - something like:

telnet mail.yourcompany.com 25
hello mail.somewhere.com
mail to: your real email address goes here
mail from: anyone@hacker.com
subject: something
test
.

something like that.

Then check its arrived

 

[homer15]

thanks for your help, Zelandakh.

am i supposed to type these commands from bash$ shell?

 

[Zelandakh]

windows cmd prompt

 

[Zelandakh]

guess you can use bash if you get the 220 reply from exchange.

 

[homer15]

well, see when i type telnet whatever.com 25 into my command prompt, it automatically opens telnet version 1.0. it won't recognize the HELO command, though.

 

[Zelandakh]

try doing it on the exchange box. Start run, cmd. then telnet to it.

 

[homer15]

ok, i went to the server and tried to telnet to it. it noticed it is connecting to a red hat 6.2 system, which is what our webhost uses. it looks like it might not be connecting to my exchange server.
now, when i telnet mail.mycompany.com 25, i get the 220 message, but if i just telnet to mycompany.com, it asks me to log into my server.

 

[Zelandakh]

you need to telnet to the mail server so check your mx record for your domain. not knowing your setup, i can't really help. try the mail.mycompanyname.com

take it from there.