Exchange 2003 Email Problem

[Dudelive]

Ok. I am not the brightest stick in the mud! When I send an email (ie. from webmaster@i2techs.com) to anyone, it doesn't seem to get there until I send another message. But If I send it TO myself and BCC it to someone that I wanted to send it to, then it goes through just fine. Any ideas on how I could adjust my settings. Could DNS be setup wrong? I just wanna know how to fix it if possible. Thanks. Also web access with Exchange 2003 is possible

Thanks in Advance,
~Dude

[JacKDynne]

Hmmm....have you fired up the mmc and taken a look at your connectors? I don't think DNS is the issue - how is your server setup? SMTP? MX records point from the outside in, so even if you don't have that set up in DNS you should still be able to send mail out....do you have an internal domain with the same name as an external one, or anything else weird like that? More info please

/JD

[Dudelive]

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Hmmm....have you fired up the mmc and taken a look at your connectors? I don't think DNS is the issue - how is your server setup? SMTP? MX records point from the outside in, so even if you don't have that set up in DNS you should still be able to send mail out....do you have an internal domain with the same name as an external one, or anything else weird like that? More info please

/JD

lets see, I bought a domain i2techs.com, I have it setup as the same as I bought. I dont know how to setup dns to host my server so easydns is doing that with some redirecting. I have some subdomains setup with them that I dont know how to do with 2003 server. If I could find a tutorial on how to do that, I would host it myself. I think DNS is setup right, not sure (i dont know enough to do it right). The server has SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, HTTP Web Access to email. the connectors say that there is 1 to aol.com, but its retrying, its failing and I dont know why. What should my MX Records be to? Thanks for your reply and help!

Also it wont send to AOL.com at all maybe I fuckored it up?

Thanks
~Dude

[JacKDynne]

Hmm. Your MX record should point to the public ip address of your email server so that people/servers that send you mail will be able to find out where it needs to go by doing a lookup on your domain name (which should be transparent to the user sending you mail). But I don't see how that would stop you from sending mail out; it is related to getting mail in. As for why it won't send to aol at all, are you getting any nondelivery reports from the server? Those may help in troubleshooting why aol is not accepting the mail....

We'll work this out

/JD

[Dudelive]

@JD

Quote:

Hmm. Your MX record should point to the public ip address of your email server so that people/servers that send you mail will be able to find out where it needs to go by doing a lookup on your domain name (which should be transparent to the user sending you mail). But I don't see how that would stop you from sending mail out; it is related to getting mail in. As for why it won't send to aol at all, are you getting any nondelivery reports from the server? Those may help in troubleshooting why aol is not accepting the mail....  

We'll work this out

I think i'm gonna transfer my domain from easydns.com to someone else. They dont give me full control over it, I have to call them to transfer the nameserver to me, then if it goes down, I have to call again to get the IP set back right. So its to much round robbin with them. Any ideas on who I should go with that will let me do whatever i want? (and mess it up at my on pace? ) My mx records point to itechmain.i2techs.com. I would have a report in 2 hours but I fuckored with my settings on easydns.com and I messed them up! so now my domain is down! oh well It will be back up in a minute! I'm going to go through and take screenshots of it and post it on my site once I get up and going again, maybe that will allow trouble shooting to go a little better. I'm going to find another Registrar so I can transfer the domain name today. Any ideas on who? Thanks for your help so far

Thanks,
~Dude