Hello all

Little background.  my company is currently using 2 companies to host our emails.  bluehost has our domain and x7hosting has our emails.  It is a simple pop email service.  We want to change over to exchange so we purchased a server that will act as a file server and a exchange server.  About 1 month ago I set up exchange server and was able to sent out emails with no issues but was not able to receive emails due to x7hosting still holding on to our domain. flash forward to today we want to redirect our domain to our in house server with exchange.  OUT of the blue i am no longer able to send out emails. we have not yet redirected our domain to our server but we would like to do so ASAP.  currently our emails are staying in our drafts.

i have gone through multiple forums but cannot find any luck

currently using this server with 2 NIC cards one is for a file server

• Edited by rvelasco 13 hours 22 minutes ago

Hi,

Please check your send connector. It needs to exist and be configured to either send with DNS or use a smarthost. If using DNS, you need to ensure that port 25 is open to the internet. If using a smarthost then make sure that the smarthost is configured to allow your server IP to relay through for your domains. 

If you do "Get-Queue | fl", this will give you the last error when the queue was last retried. Please post this if you have it and I can tell you more.

Also, if users are getting NDRs after their message expires, please send this through also.

You can also ensure that you can send email from Exchange by using the Send-MailMessage cmdlet to send a test email either directly to the internet by specifying the hostname of your recipient's MX record as the SMTP server or by specifying your smarthost as the SMTP server. You may get an error here - please post.

Failing all this, check the event logs for errors.

Let me know how it goes!

Thanks.