Hosting Multiple domains in Exchange 2003

2008-05-23 Thread Jonathan Gruber
We are currently hosting multiple domains on an exchange 2003 box and have run into an issue. We set up the box using domain a, and the fqdn listed in the virtual smtp server is mail.domaina.com. A user has sent an email to a bellsouth account using domainb which is also hosted on this server and

RE: Hosting Multiple domains in Exchange 2003

2008-05-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
Multiple domains in Exchange 2003 We are currently hosting multiple domains on an exchange 2003 box and have run into an issue. We set up the box using domain a, and the fqdn listed in the virtual smtp server is mail.domaina.com. A user has sent an email to a bellsouth account using domainb which

RE: Hosting Multiple domains in Exchange 2003

2008-05-23 Thread Don Andrews
: Friday, May 23, 2008 8:20 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Hosting Multiple domains in Exchange 2003 We are currently hosting multiple domains on an exchange 2003 box and have run into an issue. We set up the box using domain a, and the fqdn listed in the virtual smtp server is

Re: Hosting Multiple domains in Exchange 2003

2008-05-27 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Jonathan Gruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A user has sent an email to a bellsouth account using domainb which is > also hosted on this server and the mail is timing out. What's the exact error message? Have you checked Event Viewer for more info? Have y

RE: Hosting Multiple domains in Exchange 2003

2008-05-27 Thread Jonathan Gruber
, May 27, 2008 11:18 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hosting Multiple domains in Exchange 2003 On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Jonathan Gruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A user has sent an email to a bellsouth account using domainb which is > also hosted on this server

RE: Hosting Multiple domains in Exchange 2003

2008-05-27 Thread Don Andrews
.us.messagelabs.com not sure where you got mail.bellsouth.com -Original Message- From: Jonathan Gruber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 2:18 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hosting Multiple domains in Exchange 2003 DomainB is shirevalleydesign.com DNS entries are correct

RE: Hosting Multiple domains in Exchange 2003

2008-05-27 Thread Don Andrews
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 2:39 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hosting Multiple domains in Exchange 2003 It looks to me like bellsouth.com uses messagelabs. bellsouth.com MX preference = 20, mail exchanger = cluster7a.us.messagelabs.com bellsouth.com

Re: Hosting Multiple domains in Exchange 2003

2008-05-27 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Jonathan Gruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ESM error message is "An SMTP protocol error occurred." That's closer to a real cause. The server you're trying to send to is replying with something your server doesn't like. I'm guessing Exchange thinks the error i

RE: Hosting Multiple domains in Exchange 2003

2008-05-30 Thread Jonathan Gruber
MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hosting Multiple domains in Exchange 2003 On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Jonathan Gruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ESM error message is "An SMTP protocol error occurred." That's closer to a real cause. The server you're tr

Re: Hosting Multiple domains in Exchange 2003

2008-06-03 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Jonathan Gruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok I've removed the 2 PTD DNS servers, but my DNS checks still show them > listed and mail is still > failing. I removed them Wednesday 5/28, I figured 24 hours the propagate but > this morning their still showing up for

RE: Hosting Multiple domains in Exchange 2003

2008-06-04 Thread Jonathan Gruber
g Inc. 610-944-8840  x.213 484-637-1978  direct -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 11:18 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hosting Multiple domains in Exchange 2003 On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Jonathan Gruber &l

RE: Hosting Multiple domains in Exchange 2003

2008-06-04 Thread Andy Shook
June 04, 2008 10:36 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hosting Multiple domains in Exchange 2003 Still having the same issue with shirevalleydesign.com and mail to bellsouth.net. The other 2 domains are moyersconstruction.com and sealcoatmydrive.com . Turns out in doing some more lo

Re: Hosting Multiple domains in Exchange 2003

2008-06-04 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Jonathan Gruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Still having the same issue with shirevalleydesign.com and mail to > bellsouth.net. Hmmm. I just tried running some test probes against the MXes for . From a "real" ISP feed, I connected no problem, and got immediat

Re: Hosting Multiple domains in Exchange 2003

2008-06-04 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... mail.{shirevalleydesign,moyersconstruction,sealcoatmydrive}.com > (67.91.139.138), and both came out clean. Valid PTR records also > exist ... Postscript: I do notice that 67.91.139.138 reverses to . I've heard rumor t

RE: Hosting Multiple domains in Exchange 2003

2008-06-05 Thread Jonathan Gruber
o: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hosting Multiple domains in Exchange 2003 On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Jonathan Gruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Still having the same issue with shirevalleydesign.com and mail to > bellsouth.net. Hmmm. I just tried running some test p

RE: Hosting Multiple domains in Exchange 2003

2008-06-05 Thread Jason Gurtz
> Postscript: I do notice that 67.91.139.138 reverses to > . I've heard rumor > that some spam filters will consider suspicious any IP address with a > reverse DNS that "looks like that". This is much more than rumor. In addition to regex style filters that look for generic/dynamic looking PTR

Re: Hosting Multiple domains in Exchange 2003

2008-06-05 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
+1 to everything that Jason wrote. These conditions are only going to become worse. It behooves you to get with the program sooner than later. Put your DNS ducks in a line. On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Jason Gurtz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Postscript: I do notice that 67.91.139.138 r

Re: Hosting Multiple domains in Exchange 2003

2008-06-05 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Jason Gurtz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is much more than rumor. In addition to regex style filters that > look for generic/dynamic looking PTRs, more and more sites are also > blocking if the PTR does not match the A. The later is nothing new -- it's call

Re: Hosting Multiple domains in Exchange 2003

2008-06-05 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Jonathan Gruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is the log entry, seems like it might be blacklisted, but I can't find > any blacklist that lists us. > > 2008-06-05 14:02:15 207.115.11.16 OutboundConnectionResponse SMTPSVC1 VM2 - > 25 - - 550-67.91.139.138+block

RE: Hosting Multiple domains in Exchange 2003

2008-06-06 Thread Jonathan Gruber
I am using zoneedit.com to host the DNS for all of the sites, I made the changes to these 2 domains, along with 5 others over 3 weeks ago. I haven't changed any entries since then so it worries me that you saw different A records. We are doing the actual hosting of the sites. When pinging these

RE: Hosting Multiple domains in Exchange 2003

2008-06-06 Thread Jason Gurtz
> > This is much more than rumor. In addition to regex style filters > > that look for generic/dynamic looking PTRs, more and more sites > > are also blocking if the PTR does not match the A. > > The later is nothing new -- it's called a "double reverse lookup". > That's been around since at le