Configuring Incoming Email with WSS 3.0 & Exchange 2003

I have already read everything at http://suguk.org/blogs/combined_knowledge/archive/2006/06/11/831.aspx & http://www.toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=31 yet I am still having problems.  

My Setup:
Exchange 2003 (32bit)
Windows 2003 Domain Controller (32bit)
Sharepoint Server With WSS 3.0 and SMTP installed (this is a Windows 2008 64 bit Enterprise Box)

1.  I opened up IIS 7.0 on the sharepoint server --> Application Pools --> Sharepoint Central Administration V3 --> Advanced Settings --> Changed the Identity from Network Service to a Domain Admin account(mydomain\centraladmin).  Correct me if I am wrong but this is the Central App pool account right?

2.  I ran services.msc --> Changed the "Windows Sharepoint Services Timer" to use the domain account(mydomain\centraladmin) that I just set for the Application pool in the step above.  

3.  I Created a New OU on my Domain Controller called Sharepoint.  Then I right clicked the OU and gave the mydomain\centraladmin full rights to the OU.  Please note I have also tried delegating privleges and giving the account domain admin rights, which it has currently.  Then I signed in as "Centraladmin" and tried adding a user or contact to the OU and made sure I was successful.  

4.  I signed into my domain controller which also manages or Orgs DNS and created a MX record called
sharepoint.mydomain.org

5.  I opened up the IIS 6.0 Configurator so that way I could manage my SMTP information.  I right clicked on my SMTP virtual server and went to properties. Access tab --> relay --> added the IP of my Exchange 2003 Server.  On the General tab I also enabled logging.  

6.  I add the Centraladmin account to the local administrators group on the sharepoint server.

7.  On the Sharepoint Server I opened up the Central Administration Page --> operations --> Incoming Email Settings
Enable Sites on thsi server to recieve email = Yes
Settings Mode = Automatic
Use Sharepoint Directory Management Server = Yes
Active Directory Container where new distribution groups and contacts will be created = OU=Sharepoint,DC=Mydomain,DC=org
SMTP mail server for incoming mail = sharepoint.mydomain.org
Accept messages from authenticated users only = No
Allow creation of distribution groups from sharepoint sites = Yes
Email Server Display address = mylist@sharepoint.mydomain.org
Accept mail from all servers is checked

8.  On the Sharepoint Sites page I will go to "Site Actions" --> "Create" --> "Document Library" --> I will mail enable the document library and setup the incoming email address to be centraladmin@mydomain.org.  Then Bam I get this message --> "The list was created successfully, but could not be assigned an e-mail alias because of the following error: Server was unable to process request. ---> Access is denied"  I try to find anything in the event logs and there is nothing.  There are no SMTP logs either, in fact the SMTP server doesn't even create a log directory so its like its not even getting touched.  

9.  I have tried to not enable the "Sharepoint Directory Management Service"  Then I mail enable a document library and set it up to recieve email.  I don't get the annoying error message like I did above however, I am still not getting any email into my pickup folder.  From my exchange 2003 Server I tried tracking email message that were sent to centeraladmin@sharepoint.carecenter.org and it shows that it was forwarded to an SMTP server, but in fact I dont see anything.

So basically anything I have been trying hasnt worked.  Please help this is driving me nuts!  One of the articles mentioned this in the troubleshooting
"Make sure the app pool account for the web application you are trying to mail enable is running as the MOSS Administrator account you are running Central Administration under."  I am not exactly sure what they mean by that.  





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