Relaying denied
Exchange 2003.. Outside vendor created an application for us that does order entries and sends out Email confirmations using SMTP. Many Emails are getting bounced back with this message: You do not have permission to send to this recipient. For assistance, contact your system administrator.
< (OUR EMAIL SERVER.OUR DOMAIN) #5.7.1 smtp;550 5.7.1 < (EMAILADDRESS)>... Relaying denied>
App vendor thinks the relay restrictions are to blame. I have allowed the workstation range of IP addresses, the web server IP, and checked the box that allows anybody who successfully authenticates....to relay. They did mention one odd thing....Emails that go to addresses already in our global list of contacts don't seem to get bounced back, but ones that aren't do. Is there some kind of relay restriction based on membership in an address list?
My suspicion is that his app just isn't authenticating properly, if at all, but he insists that the exchange server settings need fixing. Not sure where to look next. Any ideas?
Thanks!
< (OUR EMAIL SERVER.OUR DOMAIN) #5.7.1 smtp;550 5.7.1 < (EMAILADDRESS)>... Relaying denied>
App vendor thinks the relay restrictions are to blame. I have allowed the workstation range of IP addresses, the web server IP, and checked the box that allows anybody who successfully authenticates....to relay. They did mention one odd thing....Emails that go to addresses already in our global list of contacts don't seem to get bounced back, but ones that aren't do. Is there some kind of relay restriction based on membership in an address list?
My suspicion is that his app just isn't authenticating properly, if at all, but he insists that the exchange server settings need fixing. Not sure where to look next. Any ideas?
Thanks!
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Author of app tells me since I included all workstations that use this app in the range of authorized IPs, his app doesn't need to authenticate. We use GFI Mailessentials for antispam running on the server, and it's just a single box behind a PIX firewall. Having a hard time getting answers out of this guy. All he says is "It's using smtp. Must be your server settings.."
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I'm not aware of a exchange SMTP VS setting for that. Are you running an antispam solution on the exchange server? I suspect the majority of them use all the resoruces they can find including user and global contacts to do thier jobs.
Are you using a front end/back end/dmz or single box?
The thing that I'm concerned with is how is this bounce message being sent if you are blocking relaying from this application. The typical application with basic SMTP email sending built in, would just refuse to make the connection, if they were intelligent enough to log it they would spew:
550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for joe@joe.com
how robust are the APP's settings for smtp server?