MIGRATION 5.5 TO EXCHANGE 2003 SMTP PROBLEMS

[hdeassis]

Ok..

Here is the problem. I still have my old 5.5 server on line for Public Folders synch reasons.On the old server also has Internet Mail services running. My problem is when I stop the IMS I can not send any emails, I can receive them but not send. The public ip number has been pointed to the new 2003 server and it seems to work fine. Once the IMS is restarted in the old server and I check the que I see all the messages to be sent and they do go out after a few minutes.


Why are the emails still being sent from the old server and how can I fix this so they will go though the new 2003 Exchange server only.

Thanks for your help!

 

[hdeassis]

any takers?

 

[mliera]

Mico:

Do you get any errors in the eventviewer?

Is the Exchange 2003 SMTP virtual service failing at startup?

Are you using a SMTP connector? If so, verify that DNS is properly configured. Exchange 2003 has a close relationship with DNS, it uses DNS to route all outgoing mail. The SMTP connector uses DNS to resolve the addresses of external SMTP servers.

If your behind a firewall, ensure that you have an access rule setup for SMTP to allow any any for messaging. I've encountered clients that have had SMTP rules setup for specific servers, when they put in a new server. They wonder why the new server is not sending, that's because they forgot to open up the SMTP rule to allow the new server access as well.


Hope this helps,

-ml

 

[hdeassis]

Thanks. The SMTP rules are correctly setup in the firewall. Pardon my igonrance but I'm new to 2003. Where do I check the smtp connection and relation with the dns services.


Thx

Mico

 

[mliera]

Mico:

You can verify these settings;

Open Exchange System Manager
-->select Exchange group
|->Servers folder
|-->server name
|-->protocols
|-->SMTP
|-->Default SMTP Virtual Server

Ensure that the session is enabled. Also if you have an SMTP connector configured which is under the connectors folder.

Are you getting and DNS errors?

Hope this helps,
-ml

 

[hdeassis]

I've checkd and I do have the Virtual server running. However when I looked under the properties for the VS, the first option for ip address says: "all unassigned". Not sure if this how is supposed to be.

I've checked the dns server log and below are the two only errors that I get:



"The zone lysdom.local was previously loaded from the directory partition MicrosoftDNS but another copy of the zone has been found in directory partition DomainDnsZones.lysdom.local. The DNS Server will ignore this new copy of the zone. Please resolve this conflict as soon as possible.

If an administrator has moved this zone from one directory partition to another this may be a harmless transient condition. In this case, no action is necessary. The deletion of the original copy of the zone should soon replicate to this server.

If there are two copies of this zone in two different directory partitions but this is not a transient caused by a zone move operation then one of these copies should be deleted as soon as possible to resolve this conflict.

To change the replication scope of an application directory partition containing DNS zones and for more details on storing DNS zones in the application directory partitions, please see Help and Support."

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The DNS server is configured to forward to a non-recursive DNS server at 192.54.112.30.

DNS servers in forwarders list MUST be configured to process recursive queries.
Either
1) fix the forwarder (192.54.112.30) to allow recursion
- connect to it with DNS Manager
- bring up server properties
- open "Advanced" tab
- uncheck "Disable Recursion"
- click OK
OR
2) remove this forwarder from this servers forwarders list
- DNS Manager
- bring up server properties
- open "Forwarders" tab
- remove (192.54.112.30) from list of forwarders
- click OK


Thanks for all your help!!

M

 

[hdeassis]

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