hope you can help,

I am learning Excahnge 2013 for the first time, and I have just build my first Excahnge 2013 server on a Windows 2012 server.

I follow the steps from "petenetlive.com" on how to install the server and services. as this is a test bed server, I haven't gone as far as getting the Cert's.

I have tried to different domain names from JCPPhotos.local  and jessphotos.co.uk but for some reason, I can't get the exchange to send out a test email, but I am able to send emails within exchange to internal email accounts with no issues.

at the moment as this is a test bed, I have all the services on the same server, AD, Domain Contractor, DNS, but once I have this all sorted out then I will split the services onto different servers.

I have at the moment disable all firewalls on the server, and opened all ports on my main firewall for all out going traffic.

I have set up the send connecter as shown by Petenetive, and as the domain name is the same as my public domain name I have done anything else.   has anyone else had the same issues, and if so then can you please advice.

• Edited by Chris Chambers UK Tuesday, March 03, 2015 4:39 PM

Is your email address user@jessphotos.co.uk? if it's jcpphotos.local it's probably getting bounced back because .local is not a tld that can resolve back to something.  

If this is the case you can take a look at this link and create a new email address policy for jessphotos.co.uk (I'm assuming that's good, but I don't do any business in the UK so I really have no idea) 

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb232171%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx

did you create a SMTP connector?

Did you also setup the MX records?

did you setup the .UK email address the primary emails address on the mailbox?

if anyone of them is no your email will keep getting bounced back.

Hi Chris,

1.Please check the queue viewer and check the last error message.

2.Then telnet anyone of the mail server in the internet over port no 25 , if you can then you can able to send emails to internet.

3.You can make use of the EXRCA outbound email test to get the exact error.

Reply me if you have any queries.

reply,   Yes I did set up a SMTP Connector.

I havn't don't no MX record from my ISP yet, as I wanted to get the send connector to work first.

I am not sure on how to check the Primary email address,  but in the accepted domains, I only have "Jessphotos.co.uk" which has been authoritative.

Hi ,

Thanks for your reply.

Have you checked my first two suggestions ?

Hi Chris ,

Thank you for your question.

By your state, I know you want to know if the send connector work for outbound mail flow.

When we configure send connector with MX record in ISP, we could send email to external.

However, if we have no MX record, the emails which was sent will be listed in the queue on Exchange 2013, when there are MX record in ISP, message will be send to edge server or external directly.

We could refer to the following link to learn about message flow on Exchange 2013:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996349%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx

If there are any questions regarding this issue, please be free to let me know.

Best Regard,

Jim

I have check the Queue Viewer, and it looks like all the test emails are blocked, within exchange as it is showinNext

Hop Domain = netsmart.org.uk

Delivery Type = DNSConnectorDelivery

Status = Retry

Message Count 2

Next Retry 04 March 2015  08:20:10

Last Error 400.4.4.7

here is the log file

Identity: SVREXC01\13\8589934602
Subject: TEST 1
Internet Message ID: <6a6d62aaea114ae4a54e45ac3fb458ac@SVREXC01.jessphotos.co.uk>
From Address: Administrator@jessphotos.co.uk
Status: Ready
Size (KB): 4
Message Source Name: SMTP:Default SVREXC01
Source IP: 172.16.1.13
SCL: -1
Date Received: 03/03/2015 14:07:40
Expiration Time: 05/03/2015 14:07:40
Last Error: 400 4.4.7 Message delayed
Queue ID: SVREXC01\13
Recipients:  chris@netsmart.org.uk;2;2;[{LRT=};{LED=400 4.4.7 Message delayed};{FQDN=};{IP=}];0;CN=Send-Connector,CN=Connections,CN=Exchange Routing Group (DWBGZMFD01QNBJR),CN=Routing Groups,CN=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT),CN=Administrative Groups,CN=JessPhotos,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=jessphotos,DC=co,DC=uk;0

with Telnet, I tried to open a connection by        open *.*.*.* 25

I type a Nslookup command, but I got a error message   = 500 5.3.3 Unrecognized command

I then tried to use the Telnet a test email with this and I got a error at each command line    500 5.3.3 Unrecognized command

Destination SMTP server   mail1.netsmart.org.uk  =  "this was a guest as this is a hosted domain"
Source domain   jessphotos.co.uk
Sender's e-mail address   administrator@jessphotos.co.uk
Recipient's e-mail address   chris@netsmart.org.uk
Message subject   Test from JessPhotos
Message body   This is a test message

with the EXRCA outbound

I enter in the details,      outbound IP Address = Default gate "I was guesting on this"

for the email address I enter in my local Adminsitrator@jessphotos.co.uk, and click Perform test, and I got a error, saying that it didn't like the IP Address

I also tried the IP Address of the Exchange server,  which again didn't work

any ideals ?

• Edited by Chris Chambers UK Wednesday, March 04, 2015 8:54 AM

Arr,

so are we saying that Exchange will not work, unless we have a SMTP within Exchange and a MX Record in the ISP. and if one of them is not created then exchange will not work ?

Arr,

so are we saying that Exchange will not work, unless we have a SMTP within Exchange and a MX Record in the ISP. and if one of them is not created then exchange will not work ?

Hi Chris,

Thank you for your question.

When Exchange was installed, we will send/receive email  without any problems in internal.

If we want to send/receive email to/from Internet, we will register in ISP. We will create

Send connector and receive connector on Exchange in organization.

If there are any questions regarding this issue, please be free to let me know.

Best Regard,

Jim

Hello Chris,

As there're two ways for Exchange to send outbound mail - 1) by means of DNS  and 2) using a smarthost -and your Exchange has not been registered in ISP meaning you can't make use of DNS, you can test outbound mail flow by designating your ISP's mail server (of course if there is any) as your Exchange server's smart host. In this case all domain-to-mx resolution will be done by your ISP.

Regards,

Michael

thanks for all your advice, 

as I can't use my current ISP DNS "don't ask why"  I will rebuild my test rig at home tonight and hopefully I will be able to get my test domain to point the exchange server and use that DNS and ISP to get the connection going.

Ok, I see.

Strictly speaking for an OUTbound message to be delivered you just need to be able to resolve the receipient domain's mx record - publishing your own server may not be necessary as not all internet mail servers use the sender domain checking.

Regards,

Michael

Ok, I am still having issues.

Here is my setup so far.

I have a exchange server 2013 running in a VM Environment with a Fix IP Address
"192.168.0.150"

I have disabled all firewalls on the server

I have set up my router to point all traffic on port 25 to 192.168.0.150

I have gone to my Domain Hosting firm and added a A Record and MX Record that is pointing
to my External Ip Address.

my External IP Address is DHCP as this is given to me by my ISP.

but when I try and send a test email I am getting errors.

I have tested my Exchange SMTP via telnet and it allows me to login with no issues.

I also did a few other tests, which I have added the screen shots for

Outbound Emails

Inbound Emails

Port Query

Domain A Record and MX Record Details

as you can see that my outbound has a few blocks, which I think I will need to talk to my ISP about. but now confused on how to procede to resolve this issue.

• Edited by Chris Chambers UK 12 hours 30 minutes ago

Hi Chris,

Thank you for your question.

we could remove IP address(82.30.109.135)from SORBS Block List by the following link:

http://www.au.sorbs.net/

we could also make sure telnet mail.jesssphotos.co.uk 25 from Internet.

If there are any questions regarding this issue, please be free to let me know. 

Best Regard,

Jim