We manage a company that is using SBS2003 with Exchange 2003 and we just created 2 new accounts through the SBS wizard which created email accounts for them. When anyone from outside the company tries to send them and email we get an error of "Recipient address rejected: User unknown." I have also tried by telneting directly to their server from the outside and get the same error. Telneting internally it works as does all internal emails to and from the user. The user can also send out. The only failure is incoming to this new user and new test user. They don't go through any spam filtering service and so far I have been unable to locate any AV or locally installed spam filter.. Any suggestions?

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:05:49 +0000, C-M wrote: >We manage a company that is using SBS2003 with Exchange 2003 and we just created 2 new accounts through the SBS wizard which created email accounts for them. When anyone from outside the company tries to send them and email we get an error of "Recipient address rejected: User unknown." I have also tried by telneting directly to their server from the outside and get the same error. Telneting internally it works as does all internal emails to and from the user. The user can also send out. The only failure is incoming to this new user and new test user. They don't go through any spam filtering service and so far I have been unable to locate any AV or locally installed spam filter.. Any suggestions? Do you see the rejection in the SMTP protocol log? If not, it's not Exchange thats the problem. What's different between the "internal" and "external" address? Is there some sort of SMTP proxy that needs to be updated with new addresses? --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP

Hi, If you create a new user with Exchange mailbox enabled in ADUC, can you reproduce this issue? What is the NDR message? thanks. Fiona Liao TechNet Community Support

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:05:49 +0000, C-M wrote: >We manage a company that is using SBS2003 with Exchange 2003 and we just created 2 new accounts through the SBS wizard which created email accounts for them. When anyone from outside the company tries to send them and email we get an error of "Recipient address rejected: User unknown." I have also tried by telneting directly to their server from the outside and get the same error. Telneting internally it works as does all internal emails to and from the user. The user can also send out. The only failure is incoming to this new user and new test user. They don't go through any spam filtering service and so far I have been unable to locate any AV or locally installed spam filter.. Any suggestions? Do you see the rejection in the SMTP protocol log? If not, it's not Exchange thats the problem. What's different between the "internal" and "external" address? Is there some sort of SMTP proxy that needs to be updated with new addresses? --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP I figured there had to be some type of spam filter or user filtering but for the life of me I can't locate anything. When I telnet in this is what I am seeing 220 mail.theirdomain.com ESMTP Postfix EHLO test 250-mail.theirdomain.com 250-PIPELINING 250-SIZE 75000000 250-VRFY 250-ETRN 250 8BITMIME Mail From:user@user.com 250 Ok RCPT TO:testuser@theirdomain.com 550 <testuser@theirdomain.com>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:05:49 +0000, C-M wrote: >We manage a company that is using SBS2003 with Exchange 2003 and we just created 2 new accounts through the SBS wizard which created email accounts for them. When anyone from outside the company tries to send them and email we get an error of "Recipient address rejected: User unknown." I have also tried by telneting directly to their server from the outside and get the same error. Telneting internally it works as does all internal emails to and from the user. The user can also send out. The only failure is incoming to this new user and new test user. They don't go through any spam filtering service and so far I have been unable to locate any AV or locally installed spam filter.. Any suggestions? Do you see the rejection in the SMTP protocol log? If not, it's not Exchange thats the problem. What's different between the "internal" and "external" address? Is there some sort of SMTP proxy that needs to be updated with new addresses? --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP I figured there had to be some type of spam filter or user filtering but for the life of me I can't locate anything. When I telnet in this is what I am seeing 220 mail.theirdomain.com ESMTP Postfix EHLO test 250-mail.theirdomain.com 250-PIPELINING 250-SIZE 75000000 250-VRFY 250-ETRN 250 8BITMIME Mail From:user@user.com 250 Ok RCPT TO:testuser@theirdomain.com 550 <testuser@theirdomain.com>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown Ok I think I figured this out. They are using a linux firewall and using it as a smarthost relay... now to find out if anyone knows the password.

On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:12:36 +0000, C-M wrote: >On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:05:49 +0000, C-M wrote: >We manage a company that is using SBS2003 with Exchange 2003 and we just created 2 new accounts through the SBS wizard which created email accounts for them. When anyone from outside the company tries to send them and email we get an error of "Recipient address rejected: User unknown." I have also tried by telneting directly to their server from the outside and get the same error. Telneting internally it works as does all internal emails to and from the user. The user can also send out. The only failure is incoming to this new user and new test user. They don't go through any spam filtering service and so far I have been unable to locate any AV or locally installed spam filter.. Any suggestions? Do you see the rejection in the SMTP protocol log? If not, it's not Exchange thats the problem. What's different between the "internal" and "external" address? Is there some sort of SMTP proxy that needs to be updated with new addresses? --- >Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP >--- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP > >I figured there had to be some type of spam filter or user filtering but for the life of me I can't locate anything. When I telnet in this is what I am seeing > >220 mail.theirdomain.com ESMTP Postfix EHLO test 250-mail.theirdomain.com 250-PIPELINING 250-SIZE 75000000 250-VRFY 250-ETRN 250 8BITMIME Mail From:user@user.com 250 Ok RCPT TO:testuser@theirdomain.com 550 <testuser@theirdomain.com>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown Postfix isn't Exchange. :-) If they don't have Postfix set up to use LDAP then they're probably doing some sort manual update to the file in the local_recipient_maps parameter in the main.cf file. --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP

On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:12:36 +0000, C-M wrote: >On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:05:49 +0000, C-M wrote: >We manage a company that is using SBS2003 with Exchange 2003 and we just created 2 new accounts through the SBS wizard which created email accounts for them. When anyone from outside the company tries to send them and email we get an error of "Recipient address rejected: User unknown." I have also tried by telneting directly to their server from the outside and get the same error. Telneting internally it works as does all internal emails to and from the user. The user can also send out. The only failure is incoming to this new user and new test user. They don't go through any spam filtering service and so far I have been unable to locate any AV or locally installed spam filter.. Any suggestions? Do you see the rejection in the SMTP protocol log? If not, it's not Exchange thats the problem. What's different between the "internal" and "external" address? Is there some sort of SMTP proxy that needs to be updated with new addresses? --- >Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP >--- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP > >I figured there had to be some type of spam filter or user filtering but for the life of me I can't locate anything. When I telnet in this is what I am seeing > >220 mail.theirdomain.com ESMTP Postfix EHLO test 250-mail.theirdomain.com 250-PIPELINING 250-SIZE 75000000 250-VRFY 250-ETRN 250 8BITMIME Mail From:user@user.com 250 Ok RCPT TO:testuser@theirdomain.com 550 <testuser@theirdomain.com>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown Postfix isn't Exchange. :-) If they don't have Postfix set up to use LDAP then they're probably doing some sort manual update to the file in the local_recipient_maps parameter in the main.cf file. --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP

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