I have installed one 2012 r2 AD domain server and one 2012 r2 server with 2013 installed on this server,the server is a member of my AD domain and the installed of 2013 exchange went flawlessly without any errors. I have the setup running on my laptop using VM player to deploy this test scenario, I'm using a private network in the 10.x.x.x space, I have DNS configured on my AD server and I can successfully resolve the mail server name, so I don't think it is and, my problem is I have to email users created on the same exchange 2013 server, and when I send email to either one, it goes into the "draft" folder and never leaves or gets delivered, I have looked at the message tracking and did not see anything there either, what am I missing? I installed mailbox and client access roles on the same server also.....help please, I'm trying this with eval versions of both 2012 server and exchange 2013 as a proof of concept.....help with any suggestions would be appreciated

I have installed one 2012 r2 AD domain server and one 2012 r2 server with 2013 installed on this server,the server is a member of my AD domain and the installed of 2013 exchange went flawlessly without any errors. I have the setup running on my laptop using VM player to deploy this test scenario, I'm using a private network in the 10.x.x.x space, I have DNS configured on my AD server and I can successfully resolve the mail server name, so I don't think it is and, my problem is I have to email users created on the same exchange 2013 server, and when I send email to either one, it goes into the "draft" folder and never leaves or gets delivered, I have looked at the message tracking and did not see anything there either, what am I missing? I installed mailbox and client access roles on the same server also.....help please, I'm trying this with eval versions of both 2012 server and exchange 2013 as a proof of concept.....help with any suggestions would be appreciated

• Merged by Amy.WangMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator 9 hours 36 minutes ago duplicated thread

Hi,

According to your description, I understand that mail stay in Draft folder and cannot be delivered while send message for internal mail flow.
If I misunderstand your concern, please do not hesitate to let me know.

How about the OWA? Please try to login OWA and test internal mail flow.
If you have the same problem, it seems that something wrong with Exchange server, for example send connector or receive connector, transport service.
Besides, please try to run Test-MailFlow or Telnet to test the communication of Exchange server. More details about Troubleshooting Mail Flow and SMTP, for your reference:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996805(v=exchg.65).aspx

If it works in OWA, it indicate that the problem is related to Outlook client. Please try to run Outlook with safe mode or re-create a profile for testing.

Best Regards,
Allen Wang

Is the same issue with OWA too? If yes, possibly you have deleted default receive connector. Recreate it , and try again to send  pending emails.

• Edited by Peter Gomes II 5 hours 25 minutes ago