Evening. (sorry if this is a bit long)
Hoping someone might have some ideas.
We're configured with 2 remote offices, 1 main office. Total of 5
Exchange servers (including Webmail, etc). All exchange servers go
through main office to send/receive outside emails. (Exchange 2003, SP2)
Everything has been running fine until yesterday afternoon. We
noticed that our remote Boston Exchange server no longer will relay
outgoing emails.
Any emails inter-office (Boston to other offices) will be delivered,
emails from the outside to Boston will be received, but that's
it. All outgoing Boston emails just sit in the SMTP Connector Queue
on the Boston server. I can see the emails under Exchange System Manager:
Administrative Groups -> First Administrative Group -> Servers -
Boston Mailserver - Queues - xxx-SMTP - _0c(lots of numbers)(SMTP Connector).
I've reinstalled Exchange, and reapplied Service Pack 2 on all the
servers in the event something cracked, no luck. I've purged the log
files in the event something was corrupt, nothing.
one thing I did notice is if I type NSLOOKUP, I get:
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator >nslookup
*** Can't find server name for address 68.87.71.226: Query refused
Default Server: UnKnown
Address: 68.87.71.226
On other exchange servers I get:
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator >nslookup
Default Server: internal dnd server name (name removed by author)
Address: 10.10.10.4
I can't see any reason for this error, nothing in the event logs to
show. The server has our internal DNS servers entered (I've
reentered then several times), so it should be showing:
Default Server: local remote office DNS server(name removed by author)
Address: 10.10.20.2
or even
Default Server: main office dns server (name removed by author)
Address: 10.10.10.4
Emails sent by other servers process find, and if I open up a user
account on that server and resend from my account, it's delivered
fine (since it's using my mail server).
Do you have any ideas as the mail queue is filling up? Also, if
anyone knows how I can copy these emails from this Queue into one of
the other servers so they can send it out? I've looked at the usual
places: Exchsrvr - Mailroot - VSI 1 but it was empty.
Thank you.
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