shows the mail moving fine. The MX record is fr the destination
>However... the MX record is for the external IP address of the mail
>server, not the internal one (we use NAT on our firewall). And the
>webserver box is also our external DNS box.
be resolved correctly. Have you tested your SMTP server outside of
>??? - thanks - dave
>
>
>On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 04:37:36 GMT, jeff.nospam@zina.com (Jeff Cochran)
>wrote:
>
>>
>>Check SMTP log entries. Tell us what OS versions. Make sure you have
>>valid sender and destination addresses, and that the system can
>>resolve the MX record for the destination domain.
>>
>>Jeff
>>
>>On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 19:39:13 -0700, David Thielen <david@windward.net>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Asking again.
>>>
>>>thanks - dave
>>>
>>>
>>>On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 20:14:06 -0700, David Thielen <david@windward.net>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi;
>>>>
>>>>I am testing using the IIS SMTP server for when my web app
>>>>(java-based, not asp) sends an email. The java code to send the mail
>>>>reports success (and returned an error the first time until I allowed
>>>>a relay from my test system).
>>>>
>>>>Note: In this case I am sending from my workstation (running IIS to
>>>>test) to the SMTP server on the web server which is sending email to
>>>>me - where our mail server is exchange on a second server. All 3 boxes
>>>>are on the same subnet and behind the firewall. One thing that might
>>>>be an issue, the web server (SMTP box) is our external DNS server so
>>>>it will probably get the external IP address of our mail (exchange)
>>>>server. And the firewall won't allow a connection that goes out and
>>>>loops back in. Could this be the issue?
>>>>
>>>>The log shows the following (the IP address is my workstation, where I
>>>>am running the java app on IIS from):
>>>>21:13:22 192.168.200.129 EHLO - 250
>>>>21:13:22 192.168.200.129 MAIL - 250
>>>>21:13:22 192.168.200.129 RCPT - 250
>>>>21:13:22 192.168.200.129 RCPT - 250
>>>>21:13:22 192.168.200.129 DATA - 250
>>>>21:13:22 192.168.200.129 QUIT - 240
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>When I ran the test, I first had two files in
>>>>c:\InetPub\mailroot\Queue
>>>>(there is a To: and a BCC:). Then after about a minute there were 6
>>>>files in
>>>>the Badmail directory.
>>>>
>>>>The .BDR file is:
>>>>Unable to deliver this message because the follow error was
>>>>encountered:
>>>>"This message is a delivery status notification that cannot be
>>>>delivered.".
>>>>
>>>>The specific error code was 0xC00402C7.
>>>>
>>>>The message sender was <>.
>>>>
>>>>The message was intended for the following recipients.
>>>> order@windward.net
>>>>
>>>>Any ideas?
>>>
>>>
>>>david@at-at-at@windward.dot.dot.net
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>
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