bytehd wrote: > Ok guys. > Email interface works too. > I realized what was setup wrong thanks to the bounce NDR messages: > > 1) ASSP listens on port 25. Mail coming in from the internet worked fine. > 2) Exchange was also sending outbound mail using ASSP as a relay on > (you guessed it) port 25. > 3) Even though I setup ASSP to use the ISP's relay, mail never made it out > the door. > ASSP forwarded outbound mail from Exchange back to Exchange. Doh! > > My Error: > I didnt think to use BOTH the relayHost and relayPort fields. > > My assumption: > I assumed ASSP would know the difference between internet inbound and > exchange outbound, > but with only one NIC in the ASSP box, how could it? It simply forwarded ALL > smtp inbound mail on port 25 to exchange. Nasty smtp routing loop. Messages > timeout...etc etc. > > I couldnt figure out where the "other server" was from the MS NDR text: > it was the same server! > > ill put back in production on a friday night....
Glad you got it worked out. Mail loops can be nasty. My advice is to add a second IP to the server and have ASSP listen on that. It makes configuration and debugging a little less annoying. Kevin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
