Email enabled public folder problem (after migration)
Hi all,I recently migrated my Exchange 2000 server to Exchange 2003 on a different machine. I moved all the mailboxes and public folders and all went fine. My only problem is that I have a public folder with an SMTP address and this folder doesn't receive emails when I dismount the Public information store on the old Exchaneg 2000 server. As soon as I mount it back the mail gets delivered. So it gets to my Exchange 2003 but doesn't deliver the message unless the old Exchange 2000 server Public folder store is online and then it delivers it. When I use the Message Tracking Center I can see this difference between it works and when it doesn't : When it works (Ex2K public information store mounted) it says : ... "SMTP : Message Queued for Local Delivery" ... When it doesn't (Ex2K public information store not mounted) : ... "SMTP :Message Queued forRemote Delivery" "SMTP : Message transferred to <name of old server> through SMTP .... "SMTP : Message Queued for Local Delivery" ... Any help would be greatly appreciated.Thanks in advance !
July 31st, 2007 4:25pm

I know this is a dumb question, but can you doublecheck that make sure that the replica of this folder only lives on the new server and not on the old one?
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July 31st, 2007 10:29pm

Yes, the only replica is on the new server and I canaccess thepublic folder when the old server is down and post to it (internally). I just can't seem to post to it from the outside.
July 31st, 2007 11:28pm

Has anyone responded with a fix? I have a similar issue. I built a new server to send to Corp HQ. The mailstore and pf store were empty. No mailboxes no replicas. My front-end server started sending all mail through it. When I shut it down to ship pf mail stopped flowing. Mailbox mail was delivered using a different server. Shutting down the pf store caused the same issue. I tried removeing the store but being Exchange 2003 SP2 it wouldn't let me. Kept telling me there were replicas when there weren't. I ended up uninstalling Exchange so I can ship the server.
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October 26th, 2007 12:11am

No ! What I did was change the email adress of the old public folder and recreated a new Public folder from the Exchange 2003 server with the old email adress (after the previous cange had kicked in) and that worked.
October 30th, 2007 3:05pm

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