Greetings,
I have deployed an exchange server in a Windows Server 2012 environment. The server has DC/DNS enabled and exchange is running on a hyper-v layer.
The external mail address is mail.nextsolutionllc.com
Our website will be hosted on godaddy and our mail will be hosted in-house. I created an A record in Godaddy(named mail) and pointed it to our static IP address. I also created an mx record in godaddy and pointed it to the A record.
I have verified all ports required are opened in our cisco ASA firewall.
Currently our mail server will SEND mail but will not receive mail. I can send/receive mail internally and send mail externally, just cannot receive external emails.
I have used mxtoolbox.com and it gives these results:
"Connecting to 97.89.55.134
220 *********************************************************************************************** [655 ms]
EHLO MXTB-PWS3.mxtoolbox.com
250-MAIL.NextSolutionLLC.local Hello [64.20.227.133]
250-SIZE 37748736
250-PIPELINING
250-DSN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-XXXXXXXA
250-XXXXXXXXXXXXXB
250-AUTH
250-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXC
250-8BITMIME
250-BINARYMIME
250-XXXXXXXD
250 XXXXE [712 ms]
MAIL FROM: <supertool@mxtoolbox.com>
250 2.1.0 Sender OK [728 ms]
RCPT TO: <test@example.com>
550 5.7.1 Unable to relay [5702 ms]
MXTB-PWS3v2 8753ms
I Have also used the microsoft test connectivity tool and it said "
Testing inbound SMTP mail flow for domain 'administrator@nextsolutionllc.com'.
The Microsoft Connectivity Analyzer failed to test inbound SMTP mail flow.
Additional Details
Elapsed Time: 83 ms.
Test Steps
Attempting to retrieve DNS MX records for domain 'nextsolutionllc.com'.
The Microsoft Connectivity Analyzer wasn't able to retrieve MX records from DNS."
Can anyone give me some insight? I feel as if I'm very close to having a functional exchange server. I did call Charter about ~2 hours ago and ask them to make a reverse DNS lookup for mail.nextsolutionllc.com to our static IP, I know that can take up to 24 hours but still have not had any results.
I have deployed an exchange server in a Windows Server 2012 environment. The server has DC/DNS enabled and exchange is running on a hyper-v layer.
The external mail address is mail.nextsolutionllc.com
Our website will be hosted on godaddy and our mail will be hosted in-house. I created an A record in Godaddy(named mail) and pointed it to our static IP address. I also created an mx record in godaddy and pointed it to the A record.
I have verified all ports required are opened in our cisco ASA firewall.
Currently our mail server will SEND mail but will not receive mail. I can send/receive mail internally and send mail externally, just cannot receive external emails.
I have used mxtoolbox.com and it gives these results:
"Connecting to 97.89.55.134
220 *********************************************************************************************** [655 ms]
EHLO MXTB-PWS3.mxtoolbox.com
250-MAIL.NextSolutionLLC.local Hello [64.20.227.133]
250-SIZE 37748736
250-PIPELINING
250-DSN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-XXXXXXXA
250-XXXXXXXXXXXXXB
250-AUTH
250-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXC
250-8BITMIME
250-BINARYMIME
250-XXXXXXXD
250 XXXXE [712 ms]
MAIL FROM: <supertool@mxtoolbox.com>
250 2.1.0 Sender OK [728 ms]
RCPT TO: <test@example.com>
550 5.7.1 Unable to relay [5702 ms]
MXTB-PWS3v2 8753ms
I Have also used the microsoft test connectivity tool and it said "
Testing inbound SMTP mail flow for domain 'administrator@nextsolutionllc.com'.
The Microsoft Connectivity Analyzer failed to test inbound SMTP mail flow.
Additional Details
Elapsed Time: 83 ms.
Test Steps
Attempting to retrieve DNS MX records for domain 'nextsolutionllc.com'.
The Microsoft Connectivity Analyzer wasn't able to retrieve MX records from DNS."
Can anyone give me some insight? I feel as if I'm very close to having a functional exchange server. I did call Charter about ~2 hours ago and ask them to make a reverse DNS lookup for mail.nextsolutionllc.com to our static IP, I know that can take up to 24 hours but still have not had any results.