thanks Paul! i try to do this hope it works! good day! Robby Paul_Lemonidis@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: http://www.MSExchange.org/ Hi Robby I may be on the wrong track here but I have seen this before and it turned out to be a firewall issue. By selecting the send HELO instead of EHLO on the advanced tab of the Internet Mail SMTP connector the problem went way. After upgrading our firewall I was able to unselect this option and all is fine now. EHLO is a later SMTP protocol than HELO and some older firewalls that interpret and change SMTP traffic don't support it. Older mail servers cannot either. Why this should worry Hotmail more than anyone else I don't know as upgrading the firewall here resolved the issue completely. I would have expected more problems than just Hotmail although we did have a number of latency issues but Hotmail was affected far more than anyone else unless I selected the option mentioned above. Hope that helps. Have a look at the articles below too. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q240/8/32.ASP&NoWebContent=1 http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Configuring-SMTP-Connector.html http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;241892&Product=exchange http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;818222&Product=exchange I think this will resolve the issue. Good luck and let us all know how you get on. Regards, Paul Lemonidis. ----- Original Message ----- From: Robby Lim To: [ExchangeList] Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 7:45 AM Subject: [exchangelist] i cant send and received email from hotmail http://www.MSExchange.org/ Hi All, i am having some troubles in sending and receiving email from my exchange 2003 domain to hotmail. but, i can send and receive email from my exchange 2003 to yahoo, digitelone and other free mails. can anyone help mo on this? Thanks Robby V. Lim Philippines --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: World of Windows Networking: http://www.windowsnetworking.com Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSEXchange.org Discussion List as: paul_lemonidis@xxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Report abuse to listadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: World of Windows Networking: http://www.windowsnetworking.com Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSEXchange.org Discussion List as: robby_lim23@xxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Report abuse to listadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages!