Unable to send outbound smpt email from Sharepoint 2010
I'm not sure if this falls under a Sharepoint or Exchange issue but our environment is Sharepoint 2010 and Exchange 2003 SP2. We would like to send email directly from our Sharepoint portal but it currently cannot make it past the outbound smtp queue in Exchange.
In sharepoint Central Administration Outgoing E-Mail Settings we have the following configured.
Outbound SMTP Server - Using IP or DNS name for the Exchange server produces the same unsuccessful result.
From address - the smtp email address we are using.
Reply-to-address - the smtp address we are using.
Character Set - 65001 (Unicode UTF-8)
When an email from sharepoing is initiated it is received into our exchange smtp queue but it puts a very odd string on the email before the actual adress. If I right click on the email in the queue on the message properties this is what it lists as the sender.
"=?utf-8?B?Sm9sZWVuJ3MgVGV
It only stays in the queue for a couple minutes before it disappears but then comes back on a retry status and repeats that process over and over until I do a delete no ndr on it.
The acutal email address if insite@domain.com does not exist in our AD as according to sharepoint administraion documentation it does not need to but is set to forward to an external email adress outside our domain. We have no issues emailing to that address directly from inside our organization and even if we setup an address that does actually exist in AD to email from within sharepoint it produces the same result.
Any ideas?
In sharepoint Central Administration Outgoing E-Mail Settings we have the following configured.
Outbound SMTP Server - Using IP or DNS name for the Exchange server produces the same unsuccessful result.
From address - the smtp email address we are using.
Reply-to-address - the smtp address we are using.
Character Set - 65001 (Unicode UTF-8)
When an email from sharepoing is initiated it is received into our exchange smtp queue but it puts a very odd string on the email before the actual adress. If I right click on the email in the queue on the message properties this is what it lists as the sender.
"=?utf-8?B?Sm9sZWVuJ3MgVGV
It only stays in the queue for a couple minutes before it disappears but then comes back on a retry status and repeats that process over and over until I do a delete no ndr on it.
The acutal email address if insite@domain.com does not exist in our AD as according to sharepoint administraion documentation it does not need to but is set to forward to an external email adress outside our domain. We have no issues emailing to that address directly from inside our organization and even if we setup an address that does actually exist in AD to email from within sharepoint it produces the same result.
Any ideas?
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Hi,
the most common issue with outgoing emails is that Exchange server has to be configured to allow relaying the emails from the SharePoint server.
SharePoint sends outgoing email as anonymous SMTP. All you have to do is to allow the SharePoint server IP as an allowed relay under the SMTP virtual server.
HTH
Rainer
the most common issue with outgoing emails is that Exchange server has to be configured to allow relaying the emails from the SharePoint server.
SharePoint sends outgoing email as anonymous SMTP. All you have to do is to allow the SharePoint server IP as an allowed relay under the SMTP virtual server.
HTH
Rainer
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I forgot to mention but I have done that. In ESM on the virutal server I right click > Properties> and under the Access Tab and then relay I have the IP of the sharepoint server in there.
Check if outgoing e-mail is set properly:
Launch Central Administration / Application Management / Manage Web Applications.
Select one of your Web Applications and then select “General Settings” from the Ribbon.
Select “Outgoing E-Mail” from the drop down.
Check if SMTP is insatlled properly
Configure incoming e-mail (SharePoint Foundation 2010):
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc287879.aspx
Log checking:
Enable verbose mode of logging and let me know if you see any thing related to SMTP or outgoing e-mail in ULS log file at C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\LOGS
Launch Central Administration / Application Management / Manage Web Applications.
Select one of your Web Applications and then select “General Settings” from the Ribbon.
Select “Outgoing E-Mail” from the drop down.
Check if SMTP is insatlled properly
Configure incoming e-mail (SharePoint Foundation 2010):
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc287879.aspx
Log checking:
Enable verbose mode of logging and let me know if you see any thing related to SMTP or outgoing e-mail in ULS log file at C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\LOGS
Make sure that if you have multiple web frontends that all the ip's of the webfrontends are configured.
You can easily check if it is SharePoint that is messing things up if you install smtp4dev on the frontends. This will capture the smtp message directly on the server when it is being sent out.
You can easily check if it is SharePoint that is messing things up if you install smtp4dev on the frontends. This will capture the smtp message directly on the server when it is being sent out.
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Outgoing email is setup properly.
Why do I need to configure incoming email on the sharepoint server? This is an outbound issue where mail sent directly from Sharepoint cannot get out of the smtp queue on Exchange. Outgoing email setttings is setup properly.
We enabled verbose mode of logging and kicked off an email from sharepoint but I don't see anything specifically related to email in the logs. Anything I can search on specifically?
I tried to install smtp4dev on the frontend mail server but get an error that it can't update or find a specified path. When the gui comes up it says "server failed: only one usage of each socket address is normally permitted."
Why do I need to configure incoming email on the sharepoint server? This is an outbound issue where mail sent directly from Sharepoint cannot get out of the smtp queue on Exchange. Outgoing email setttings is setup properly.
We enabled verbose mode of logging and kicked off an email from sharepoint but I don't see anything specifically related to email in the logs. Anything I can search on specifically?
I tried to install smtp4dev on the frontend mail server but get an error that it can't update or find a specified path. When the gui comes up it says "server failed: only one usage of each socket address is normally permitted."
You don't have to mess with inbound, disregard that user's comment.
You will get that error in SMTP4DEV when the SMTP service is running on your server (in services.msc), since it binds itself to port 25.
You will get that error in SMTP4DEV when the SMTP service is running on your server (in services.msc), since it binds itself to port 25.
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I stopped the smtp service on our front end OWA server and now the tool installs and when I open, it says it is listening on port 25 but no mail is seen. When I click options I get an error message saying " unhandled exception has occured in your application. could not load file or assembly system core, version 3.5.0.0 the system could not find the file specified.
After a while the program just closes and when I try to reopen I get the socket error again and it's no longer listening on port 25 even though the smtp service is still stopped.
After a while the program just closes and when I try to reopen I get the socket error again and it's no longer listening on port 25 even though the smtp service is still stopped.
Are you the exchange admin? Or do you have one? Are you absolutely certain you granted access on the correct send connector?
I'm going back to my original comment, if it's getting out of SharePoint, the problem isn't in SharePoint. That's been my experience in 99% of the cases with outbound email.
I'm going back to my original comment, if it's getting out of SharePoint, the problem isn't in SharePoint. That's been my experience in 99% of the cases with outbound email.
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I am close as there is to an exchange admin here. I'm 100% that I allowed the sharepoint server to relay through the exchange server. In ESM on the default smtp virtual server if you right click, choose properties, go to access and then relay the IP of the SP server is granted in there.
As far as System Policies in ESM the only ones we have setup in Exchange are mailbox size limits for executives and staff on certain mailbox stores.
As far as System Policies in ESM the only ones we have setup in Exchange are mailbox size limits for executives and staff on certain mailbox stores.
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I should also add that we are able to email users within the domain from the sharepoint portal and this is only affecting our ability to send email to external users from sharepoint.
What version of Exchange?
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2003 SP2
I'm no Exchange guru, but the fact that internal people get messages and external do not, should clue an Exchange person into the issue, in my opinion. SharePoint doesn't format the messages any different.
With Achilles on this one. If the external emails get messed up, then it is not a SP problem.
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It probably is an exchange issue but there is some tie in with sharepoint also. We have no issues sending external mail but when one is initiated from sharepoint it puts the same "=?utf-8?B?Sm9sZWVuJ3MgVGV
I've never used anything but the default, which is what you are using.
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To the person who asked me to enable verbose logging on the sharepoint server. There appears to be a log that is created each time I send an email from the sharepoint server.
01/09/2013 15:21:02.75 w3wp.exe (0x05A4) 0x1DC8 SharePoint Foundation Service Connections ev2x Verbose <TraceRecord xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2004/10/E2ETraceEvent/TraceRecord" Severity="Information"><Tr
Notice the part where it says "the security protocol secured the outgoing message?"
Could that be why it is placing that weird string on the email before the actual address of "=?utf-8?B?Sm9sZWVuJ3MgVGV
That string is the same each time an email from sharepoint comes into the smtp que with an external address on the email. Exchange clearly does not like it and why it fails to send, drops from the queue and then keeps looping back into a retry status to send but never does.
Is there any place to adjust or set security parameters in sharepoint to change or lower them?
01/09/2013 15:21:02.75 w3wp.exe (0x05A4) 0x1DC8 SharePoint Foundation Service Connections ev2x Verbose <TraceRecord xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2004/10/E2ETraceEvent/TraceRecord" Severity="Information"><Tr
Notice the part where it says "the security protocol secured the outgoing message?"
Could that be why it is placing that weird string on the email before the actual address of "=?utf-8?B?Sm9sZWVuJ3MgVGV
That string is the same each time an email from sharepoint comes into the smtp que with an external address on the email. Exchange clearly does not like it and why it fails to send, drops from the queue and then keeps looping back into a retry status to send but never does.
Is there any place to adjust or set security parameters in sharepoint to change or lower them?
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I've requested that this question be closed as follows:
Accepted answer: 0 points for TSG-IDS's comment #a38776259
for the following reason:
No previous answers pointed me to this resolution.
Accepted answer: 0 points for TSG-IDS's comment #a38776259
for the following reason:
No previous answers pointed me to this resolution.
Don't just delete this question. We helped verify that the issue was not inside of SharePoint, but was on your mail server. At a minimum, accept your answer and comment 38745058 as the answers.
Again, if the message is getting out of SharePoint, the problem isn't with SharePoint.
Again, if the message is getting out of SharePoint, the problem isn't with SharePoint.
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My solution and comment http:#a38745058 provided the answer for this.
See the author's decision.
Supporting Achilles. You clearly stated this question as being a SharePoint problem (therefor also posted in the SharePoint area). Clearly indicated and troubleshooted with you to provide you a clear understanding on where the problem is surfacing and ruling out SharePoint as the source of the problem.
That you solved it by finding it in Antigen, nice job. But if it weren't for this topic, you would still be blaming SharePoint.
That you solved it by finding it in Antigen, nice job. But if it weren't for this topic, you would still be blaming SharePoint.
The author already made his recomendation.
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As I mentioned the smtp address we have setup in the sharepoint portal is not actually within our AD. When I add it to our AD and send an email from an outlook client to it, it correctly forwards off to the external address outside our domain we want it to go to.
There's something about initiating the email from within the Sharepoint portal itself that Exchange does not like and adds the odd string each time. The string is always the same as posted above.