"Inquisitive" <Inquisitive@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a client running SBS 2003 who has recently relocated offices. Low
>and
> behold the telco didn't connect the ADSL line on time so we are using
> dialup
> until they fix that up.
>
> The problem is that the ISP blocks port 25 on dialup so we have to set the
> smarthost setting. That is all fine and the exchange serve can actually
> talk
> to it (see further ahead) but all emails just get stuck in the queue.
> Looking
> at the logs it seems that there is a handshake between the two servers but
> the connection either terminates or hangs after "DATA". The log looks
> something like this (doing this from memory at home as the dialup
> connections
> is way too slow for surfing)
>
> ehlo domain.com
> 250
> MAIL FROM:me@domain.com
> 250
> MAIL TO:you@anotherdomain.com ---> A bit weird as I was expecting RCPT
> TO instead
> 250
> DATA
> 250 - OK go ahead
> CONNECTION TERMINATED
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
> BTW I can setup an outlook express account on any computer and use that
> smarthost as the smtp server and send emails no problem. So it is
> definetely
> related to exchange/virtual smtp server.
>
> Server is 2003 rel 2 with all the updates (Running WSUS)