Re: Getting Exchange to send and receive Internet E-mail
- From: Thomas Brennan <tbrennan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 09:50:36 -0400
Nice, step by step Matt
At Tuesday, 14 May 2002, you wrote:
>http://www.MSExchange.org/
>
>>From your descriptive message, I am going to have to assume a few
>things, like is Exchange installed correctly, or is DNS setup correctly,
>or are there any firewall issues...
>
>Make sure the following work in this order:
>- Make sure TCP/IP is installed on your exchange server.
>- Test to see if your exchange server surf the internet.
>- Make sure that any firewall is allowing port 25 thru in both
>directions. Also, if you are behind a proxy server, make sure that is
>setup correctly.
>- Can you connect to the internet on any port number from your exchange
>server (try this cmd: "telnet smtp-gw-4.msn.com 25" and see if you
get a
>220 response - if not, then you probably cannot connect to msn.com's
>mail server to send a user there e-mail.)
>- On a computer that is on the same network as your exchange server,
>what happens if you do a "telnet <ip addy of exch server> 25" - that
>SHOULD work. If it doesn't, then you have issues with your exchange
>server and SMTP.
>- I am going to assume that your external DNS is setup correctly and
>working fine. Then have a friend try the same command as above, except
>replace the "smtp-gw-4.msn.com" with your FQDN for your mail server.
>For instance, if your mail server is mail.domain.com, then your friend
>would need to type "telnet mail.domain.com 25" from a computer that can
>fully see the internet.
>- Once you get to the point where your exchange server is responding to
>an external request for SMTP, then you need to make sure you have a
>place for a user's e-mail to go. See if your friend can send a message
>to administrator@xxxxxxxxxx (again, assuming the MX record for your DNS
>is working properly) - connect to your exchange server with Outlook,
and
>test.
>
>If things are still not working, e-mail us back, but tell us what DOES
>work, as well as what DOESN'T work, and any steps you may have tried.
>
>Matt
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Wagner R. de Souza [mailto:warnerr@xxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 4:45 PM
>To: [ExchangeList]
>Subject: [exchangelist] Re: MSExchange Outsourcing
>
>http://www.MSExchange.org/
>
>I need to know, how to configure o Exchange Server for to receive
and to
>send external messages.
>
>Please, help me!!!!
>
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