What is OE saying when you try to retrieve the message? Please post the error message. ________________________________ From: Navigator gomaa [mailto:gom3aa@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 6:30 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] exchange configurations http://www.MSExchange.org/ Hi Experts I have recently installed an e-mail exchange server 2003 and its actually the first time to that and i am totaly new with it. so here are my questions : 1-I have tried to send e-mails and receive mails through intranet and Internet and the result was as follow. -locally sending/receiving = succeed -Internet receiving=i see that the items is increased in the mailbox after sending the mail from an external mail ,that means that its receiving is functioning well,but i never succeeded to read the mail or to retrieve it through the outlook express nor the outlook web access (i wonder why). -Internet sending = succeeded to send to external emails like gmail or hotmail (but it always take much time ). 2-what is the best configurations to enhance my exchange mail process sending/receiving speed? 3-what is the best exchange configurations to secure my exchange and to protect it specially from spams?. Thank you -- Eng.Mohamed Gomaa GIS Application Engineer Intergraph Egypt ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp ------------------------------------------------------ Visit TechGenix.com for more information about our other sites: http://www.techgenix.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: chongja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Report abuse to info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx