Attempting a home based Exchange for testing/learning purposes.

[EvilFranky]

And I need a little help.

Got a Windows Server 2003 R2 installed as a virtual machine on VM Ware.

Running fine as a DC, DNS, DHCP etc and also Exchange 2003.

I already own a domain through 123-reg.co.uk called frankandoli.co.uk.

I have a VM cable line, no static IP but they don't change with any regularity so are almost static.

I have setup a MX record for my domain through 123-reg to point to the external IP address of my connection and have set up port forwarding for 25 SMTP to go through to my server IP of 192.168.5.1. This was only done about 1-2 hours ago.

Created a couple of user accounts in AD and have joined a virtual XP box to the domain which is called frankiesdomain.local.

Logged in as one of the users and setup office 2003 no probs to the exchange. And sent an email from it no problems straight to my normal account outside of the virtual setup.

Problem I have is...I cant send mails to either of the 2 accounts I have created.

I get a bounce back whoch says:-

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

[email protected]
all relevant MX records point to non-existent hosts

------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------

Return-path: <[email protected]>
Received: from [172.23.170.144] (helo=anti-virus03-07)
by smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52)
id 1KATua-0003FT-8n
for [email protected]; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:03:36 +0100
Received: from [77.98.233.143] (helo=frankiepc)
by asmtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.52)
id 1KATuZ-0000sS-TB
for [email protected]; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:03:35 +0100


Am I just being impatient and should wait a bit longer for the MX record to sort itself out?

Or is there something I ain't setup right? From the bounce back it looks like its reaching the external IP that I set the mx record to point to. But the mail isn't getting through.

Any help or advice would be welcomed

 

[HarryPainful]

have you edited the recipient policy to put the "frankandoli.co.uk" address in as well as the .local address?

The exchange box will try and send them out to the internet if it does not know what to do with them.

 

[EvilFranky]

I havn't added it as a recipient policy, but manually added the address against the users accounts in AD and made them the default.

Is their something in the recipient policy I should be changing??

 

[HarryPainful]

The recipient policy is where you tell exchange what to do with it.

You could put anything you want in the SMTP area of the AD profile, does not mean it will work

 

[paradigm]

Can you send test messages using telnet (port 25) to the exchange server?

 

[EvilFranky]

I've given up just for tonight. Will try the suggestions tomorrow and report back.

Thanks for the help so far

 

[Misan]

I was having similar problems, sending from my Scalix box with a dynamic IP assigned by my ISP.
Seems a lot of email servers blacklist your IP, even if you do have valid MX records.
I'd suggest routing all your outgoing mail through a smarthost (your ISP's SMTP server)
Check the following link on how to configure a smarthost with Exchange
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/821911

 

[HarryPainful]

The domain is internal.

It should not be sending anything out at all.

Mail to the same exchange organisation does not leave the server to come back in, its sent straight the info store that holds the mailbox.