SBS email problems

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Now I know I should know this but it is really starting to cheese me off.

A little while ago I bought a domain. All I used it for was for email forwarding to my ISP.

Now I've decided to install SBS 2003 onto a server and use the domain name for email and prob a web page. I installed the server using all the default settings calling it server.domain.local

I allowed OWA and remote access so that I could access my email.

I contacted pipex who control the DNS for my domain name and asked them how I redirect the mail to my server not my ISP. There reply was remove the redirects and add an A record to their DNS "Mail" - "IP address" of my mail server (actually my router, but port 25 is redirected to the SBS server) and to remove their MX records and add "mail" their MX records.

I did all this and the mail don't happen. Can send but not recieve.
So what's wrong here guys? Where have I gone wrong. At the moment I have reset it all (the DNS) back to what it was before so that I can still get mail.

Please feel free to ask for more details if I've missed anything.

Thanks for your help

AJ

 

You only need to forward port 25 inbound to your SBS box to receive email. Also make sure your recipient policy on Exchange server is setup to accept from your registered domain.

In regards to DNS make sure the MX record points to to the public I.P of your router. As you mentioned there may be a ‘mail’ A record and this should point at your WAN port on your router.

Has the DNS replicated correctly when you tested last time? You might want to telnet on port 25 to check that the firewall is allowing inbound SMTP traffic.

 

Not sure port 110 comes into this guys. The only reason to forward 110 to the SBS box is if you want to set up POP3 clients externally.

Edit: also worth noting that the mail exchanger should have mail.yourdomain.com and that should resolve to the your 'real world' I.P address

 

LOL no probs.

If the DNS has replicated correctly it may be an issue with port forwarding or the SBS box isn’t happy

 

GManUK

a record reads "mail" pointing to routers address

mx record reads mail 5

Sparkey

Recipient policy doing the job nicely and ports forwarded as needed

Gav

Who's Gav


hehehe thanks guys - changes made just got to wait till the dns fully propogates

 

Knowing Pipex it`ll take weeks for the DNS to replicate!

Perhaps forward port 443 to the SBS and try typing https:\\mail.yourdomain.com\exchange from and external PC. This would at least test that the DNS is resolving correctly

Failing that try a reboot

Yes, Im out of ideas!

 

Thanks Pete, all users not only have an smtp address of [email protected]l but also [email protected]

 

Once you think the DNS may have replicated I would check on this website http://www.dnsstuff.com/

I had a problem with a client not being able to recieve any email and it turned out that the MX records went into an 'endless loop' when trying to resolve to an I.P. I didnt get this error when checking from mx from nslookup but dnsstuff.com displayed the error.

Ended up having to reset the MX records and a few hours later everything was ok.

 

IT'S WORKING

I followed all of your advice guys and also updated the firmware on my router. I lost all my settingsin the router during the process and had to do the passwords etc. The port forwarding had also gone, so I got the SBS box to sort all that out again.

Anyhoo thanks a lot for your help guys. I had been trying to get it to work for so long I had started to lose site of what I was trying to achieve.

Beers all round on me then