...as for troubleshooting remote host retry issues; you;ll need to look at the remote host. You can often do that with a telnet session to the remote host to see why they drop the connection. This could be for many reasons but it's a normal occurrence in some instances. Q153119 talks about the set of steps to test this if unfamiliar. Al -----Original Message----- From: Thomas W Shinder [mailto:tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 12:39 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: New Exchange Setup http://www.MSExchange.org/ Hi Stephen, There's some good info about DNS issues with Exchange in the ISA Server 2000 Exchange 2000/2003 Deployment Kit. Check out the ISA Server 2000 Exchange 2000/2003 Deployment Kit! -- http://www.tacteam.net/isaserverorg/exchangekit/ HTH, Thomas W Shinder www.isaserver.org/shinder ISA Server and Beyond: http://tinyurl.com/1jq1 Configuring ISA Server: http://tinyurl.com/1llp -----Original Message----- From: Stephen F. Herrera [mailto:sherrera@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 11:15 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] New Exchange Setup http://www.MSExchange.org/ Thanks for the info on the DNS. To say Exchange has been a lot to learn would be an understatement but I noticed in my SMTP queue that I have about 16 remote delivery entries in there with a status of retry. When I look in the properties of the entries I see "The connection was dropped by the remote host." Where can I look to trouble shoot this. I have looked on MS site and the msexchange.org and have not been able to find anything. Thanks in advance. Steve ------------------------------------------------------ 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: 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 ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------ 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: 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 ------------------------------------------------------