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Exchange 2000 not receiving outside mail

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by mmeiers 1 view

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I am having a problem with my exchange server. I can send mail with it, but I cant receive any mail. The domain is set as domain.local and i need to set it to accept mail from domain.com. I cant get it to accept any mail from outside the domain.I am able to send mail inside, but anything coming in from the outside never gets in. I am not receiving a NDR.

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by maxwell edison

Is it possible that you have some Routing Restrictions in place, thereby restricting all outside mail causing a situation where none or the senders can be authenticated?

Exchange Server 5.5 Service Pack 1 adds "Routing Restrictions" to the Internet Mail Service. This allows the administrator to specify who can relay mail.

To allow a range of IP address to relay, enter in the format, IP=>scope to allow< (i.e 1.1.1.0>, MASK=255.255.255.0. This will allow the address range of 1.1.1.1 - 1.1.1.254 to relay.

http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;q196626

(REMOVE SPACES from the pasted URL.)

This is not an exact answer to your problem, but perhaps it will lead you in a helpful direction.

Maxwell

by will shakespeare

Do you have your mx records in place correctly on the DNS server? If you have DNS internal on your domain (i.e. host your own domain name, domain.com), you need to create an mx which points to the Exchange Server... if your domain name is hosted at an ISP, then you need to contact them and get them to update their DNS entries to include an mx record for your domain.
Hope this helps... you could have lots of mails out there (as you are not getting NDRs) waiting to come in, because it can see the domain, but not the mail exchange (mx record)...
perhaps, hope this helps... had similar problems a while ago with Ex2000.

Will

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