Hi Hanan, While its not required, you can sometimes speed things up by restarting the firewall or web proxy service, depending on what it is you're trying to accomplish. HTH, Tom 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: hanan [mailto:nouran@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 10:51 AM To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Subject: [isalist] Re: publishing internal mail server http://www.ISAserver.org Thank you for all, the problem was resolved, I don't know how but what I did I delete it and create again the same publishing mail server, after that it doesn't work immediately but after a while it was working, why I don't know Thank you again hanan -----Original Message----- From: paul_lemonidis@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:paul_lemonidis@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 5:37 PM To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Subject: [isalist] Re: publishing internal mail server http://www.ISAserver.org Hi Hanan I have a feeling this may be because the mail server traffic is clashing with the SMTP service that maybe installed on the ISA box. I think installs and enables the SMTP service by default. I had this problem and the only clue was in the event logs. They reported that the server couldn't be published properly as another service was using the port. We checked the list of Services and SMTP was there and running. We had not installed it deliberately at all. It was the FSMO so maybe dcpromo out it there? Nothing else was installed other than Compaq tools as it was Compaq hardware. Hope that helps. Bye for now. Paul Lemonidis.