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Thanks for all of your suggestions. Found out what it was, previous IT administrator had the first servers SMTP Virtual server assigned to port 26 for some reason.
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Thanks for all of your suggestions. Found out what it was, previous IT administrator had the first servers SMTP Virtual server assigned to port 26 for some reason.

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I have installed a second Exchange 2003 server into my exchange organisation. Default install and I've changed its SMTP Virtual server to match the settings on the first server.<br />
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I've created a test account and moved it to the second server and encountered a strange problem. I can send email from this account and when tracked it gets routed through to the first server and sent. However when I send email to the account from either internal or external it doesnt go through and sits in the queue of the first server with the following message &quot;The remote server did not respond to a connection attempt&quot;<br />
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Neither machines are firewalled from each other, both machines can ping each other, both machines can telnet to port 25 of each other.<br />
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So pretty much new server can send mail but not receive.<br />
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Any suggestions?
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I have installed a second Exchange 2003 server into my exchange organisation. Default install and I've changed its SMTP Virtual server to match the settings on the first server.

I've created a test account and moved it to the second server and encountered a strange problem. I can send email from this account and when tracked it gets routed through to the first server and sent. However when I send email to the account from either internal or external it doesnt go through and sits in the queue of the first server with the following message "The remote server did not respond to a connection attempt"

Neither machines are firewalled from each other, both machines can ping each other, both machines can telnet to port 25 of each other.

So pretty much new server can send mail but not receive.

Any suggestions?

Second Exchange Server not able to receive mail

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.

Exchange

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).