Need a windows mail server person

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Kyle

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Having trouble setting up the pop accounts and recieving mail on the box at the new location. Anyone out there know anything about setting this up ? Looks like mail is coming into the server but not going to the individual mail boxes..... I am bout to shoot it !


Kyle
 
rmuller

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What is it, an exchange server? what year? I haven't set up too many win-based mail servers, but I might be able to help you with troubleshooting.. what version of windows is the server running? And what makes you think it is getting to the server?
 
vabiro

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Kyle,

I just did a couple of quick diagnostics, and it looks like the SMTP server on your - what looks like - Exchange server isn't working.

The MX record is in the DNS and I can telnet to the POP3 port (110) without any problem. However when I try to telnet to the SMTP port, where the mail server receives the e-mail from other servers, it does not respond.

The above symptoms would allow your mail client to connect to the server and authenticate, but there wouldn't be any mail. Messages sent to accounts on the server may not bounce because the MX record is present in DNS and the SMTP server didn't respond with a rejection of the address. As a result the sending server may keep trying to send the message for - depending on how it is configured - several days. You my get a notification after a few hours that the receiving server was unreachable and the sending server will continue trying.

It has been a while since I worked with the Exchange server. The last version I used was 5.5, so I don't know how relevant this would be, but I recall that they had "agents" for each messaging protocol: one for POP3, one for IMAP4, and one for SMTP.

By default, the SMTP server agent needed to be turned on before it would receive any mail from the Internet. If it wasn't only users within the same domain (eg. @discoweb.org) would be able to e-mail each other.

Hope this helps.

Victor
 
skydiver

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Kyle said:
Having trouble setting up the pop accounts and recieving mail on the box at the new location. Anyone out there know anything about setting this up ? Looks like mail is coming into the server but not going to the individual mail boxes..... I am bout to shoot it !


Kyle
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You don't mention the server type, but you might want to check out Mercury/32. It's a FREE smtp/pop3/imap server from the guy who makes Pegasus Mail (also free.)

Take a peek: ftp://ftp.usm.maine.edu/pegasus/mercury32/m32-401a.exe

I've been running Mercury (in various OS flavors) for about 10 years, and I'd be happy to help with any questions should you decide to run with it.

Cya!
-Tommy
 
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Kyle

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Its running web server 2K3 and its the standard integrated POP3 add in. Here is the deal . The mail is coming into the box and going into the drop folder. It just gets stuck in there and doesnt get filtered out into the various user folders for delivery. When I manually drop them int he user folders the mail delivers when asked just fine. So the issue at this point is how the helltogetthepop service to sort the mail to the user it was intended.


Kyle
 
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Kyle

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I got it , I had moved the default mail store location and then pout it back and that had it all pissed off. Working fine now. Thanks people

Kyle
 
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curtis

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Was it shifting at the proper shift points? How about CDL? Was it locked or unlocked? May want to check the VSS as well as the vacuum hose routing.
 
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