Well, since my Exchange server came back to life (dead RAID card - had to install a new one); I am getting the following error when sending internally to users in my domain. It worked fine before it crashed and I have not changed any settings. Any idea? Reporting-MTA: dns; gwa3.webcontrolcenter.com Final-Recipient: rfc822; jdoe@ff-intra.panamcomp.com Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Diagnostic-code smtp; Invalid Domain (ff-intra.panamcomp.com)

Please specify the Exchange Server you are using (2003 or 2007/2010)? Make sure that the domain specified below is in under accepted domains on your exchange server. -- Regards, Vik Singh -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to click ??Mark as Answer? on the post that helps you, and to click ??Unmark as Answer? if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. "exchngadmin" wrote in message news:950d161e-8347-4cb7-9ee1-be35997fa3d4@communitybridge.codeplex.com... Well, since my Exchange server came back to life (dead RAID card - had to install a new one); I am getting the following error when sending internally to users in my domain. It worked fine before it crashed and I have not changed any settings. Any idea? Reporting-MTA: dns; gwa3.webcontrolcenter.com Final-Recipient: rfc822; jdoe@ff-intra.panamcomp.com Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Diagnostic-code smtp; Invalid Domain (ff-intra.panamcomp.com)

I am using Exchange 2007. And yes, the domain is listed in the under the accepted domains. It is listing an error on Mail Flow Issues. "Remote SMTP Status" - Port 25 did not respond. However, I have never heard of mx.offdot.com. I didn't set up the exchange server though.

Anyone? Or should I direct this to another forum?

Can you make sure that the send connectors/receive connectors are setup correctly. -- Regards, Vik Singh -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to click ??Mark as Answer? on the post that helps you, and to click ??Unmark as Answer? if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. "exchngadmin" wrote in message news:73256b96-8b03-4171-a0a6-f73c62ea0b60@communitybridge.codeplex.com... Anyone? Or should I direct this to another forum?

"I am getting the following error when sending internally to users in my domain" Can you clarify what you mean by that? You are getting these errors when sending from your own mailbox to other internal users within the Exchange org? Or from outside of Exchange? What is "ff-intra.panamcomp.com"? What is your SMTP domain?

I get the error when I send emails internally within my domain. My users internal email would be i.e. jdoes@ff-intra.panamcomp.com. ff-intra is my domain. SMTP would be panamcomp.com (mail.panamcomp.com)

Vik - I am really novice with Exchange. I see where to check the send connectors, but not the receive connector(s). I'm not positive if the send connector(s) are set up right as the address space is just a *. I have a "default" and an "smtp_out". The FQDN is listed correctly.

What are set as authorative domains in Exchange? ( you said before it was set as accepted, but are they set as authorative as well?)

We have three; pcitec.com panamcomp.com and ff-intra.panamcomp.com. All three are set as authoritative. Can spyware or malware cause the routing issues? I received the oddest email bounce back. I never seen a delivery failure of that nature. See below. The mailbox that bounced back though it is correct (I didn't list the correct address below though). "Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail.bachcsi.com. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. <joe@panamcomp.com>: Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)"

Does message tracking show that the messages sent internally to internal Exchange users are attempting to leave the Exchange org?

It looks like it. Below is the error again, but also has a link at the bottom pointing me to https://netwinsite.com/surgemail. I've never heard or not use surgemail When trying to deliver your message, the mail server at gwa3.webcontrolcenter.com encountered problems with the following addresses: For a more detailed explanation see http://netwinsite.com/surgemail/deliver_failed.htm

Just FYI, my fourth storage group was corrupt. Even though the users in this corrupt EDB weren't included in these errors, once I disconnected the mailboxes and removed the storage group, everything returned to normal.

Ok, thanks for the update. That's the strangest thing I have heard in a long time!