Mail to new server

You need to change your MX recored in the DNS to point to the new server.

What happens when you try to send mail from outside to your SBS server?

Have you configured your external DNS properly? See my guide here: https://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Server_Software/Email_Servers/Exchange/A_2370-Exchange-DNS-Configuration.html

Also have you forwarded port 25 to your internal IP address from your router/firewall?

Lastly, have you completed all the wizards in the SBS console?  Check in the Exchange Management Console under Server Configuration > Hub Transport that the Default receive connector has annonymous user checked on the last tab.

i have done that.  i pointed them to remote.domainname.com .

have you checked the rest of my suggestions? How long ago did you make the DNS changes? It can take up to 48 hours to propogate.

DNS was forwarded about an 1 hr ago.  However the remote site is up and all my outside pings go to the correct address.

I did just put on the annonymous tab. the port forward had been set.  I am reading the document now.

The TTL on the DNS may be a day. An hour maybe too short of time to tell if it will work or not

the annonymous tab will do it.  Have you tried since setting that?

BTW sorry just in case TTL (Time To Live)

Also other DNS may cache the MX record even longer than the TTL

RickEpnet, please try and consolidate your posts rather than posting multiple times.

Also try not to repeat what other experts have already said, if you read my posts, you will see I have already said it can take up to 48 hours to propogate.

I guess i need to wait then.  I sent an e-mail from another account.  However it just seems to be out in space.  It did not send me a rejection notice this time, however I also have not received the email either.

DO you just have 1 or 2 MX records in your DNS?

i have only set up one

Ok so none of our mail is coming through now.

you will need to give it time.

OK, I got a new question and maybe this is a time issue.  The accounts seem to be recieving mail now to some degree.  What I mean is that I see new mail in the e-mail addresses. However if I try to mail from a google, att, or mac email address the emails, never seem to come through.  Is this still a wait thing?  It doesn't seem to be mxtoolbox pulls up the right server.

Can you post your domain name? I will obscure it once you have posted it.

sure.  The domain is .  I have also checked the MXtoolbox site.  It has the server right, but it times out on testing.

[EDIT]Domain namre removed to protect author[EDIT]

I ran a test on that domain as far as email you seem good. This is the address of your mail server correct?
0 remote.domainname.com. [TTL=172800] IP=x.y.z.50 [TTL=172800] [US]

I have just sent an email to the administrator mailbox, can you check it? did you receive it OK?

yea.  thats it.  Its odd.  Some mail seems to flow through.  Other mail that I send from personal accounts say 3 hours ago has yet to arrive, but I have not gotten and messages back saying they were refused either.

ahh, you have no Administrator@domainname.com account?

Ok, I just need to be patient.  Sorry.  I know you told me that, just seems odd to me that some mail comes in and some does not.  I will just wait it out.

i guess not.  Should I?

don't forget that google and the likes will have their own name servers, it will update from another server etc etc so this could be just a case of propogation :)

no, don't worry, the important thing is the telnet test worked.

Can you check the old POP account services and see if that mail is going there? If some mail servers like gmail etc you are using to send from as a test have that old server cached the mail should end up there.

yes I can check the old pop servers.  There is some mail there.  not much, but the emails I was sending from my personal accounts have not ended up there.

Now my messages are starting to kick back:

Delivery is delayed to these recipients or groups:

email address obscured.

Subject: 19test

This message hasn't been delivered yet. Delivery will continue to be attempted.

The server will keep trying to deliver this message for the next 1 days, 19 hours and 57 minutes. You'll be notified if the message can't be delivered by that time.

Received: from mail.dnpexchange.com ([fe80::dc07:b013:8090:2c3]) by mail.dnpexchange.com ([fe80::dc07:b013:8090:2c3%14]) with mapi; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 05:50:01 -0600 From: Jason To: "info@domainname.com" Subject: 19test Thread-Topic: 19test Thread-Index: AcvfGUmjnSfuKQ1bTDqiZ/cFAdMk/A== Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:45:34 +0000 Message-ID: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <73a67b5e-1ff1-42fc-8199-1cf45fedc27f> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0

that's fine, it will keep retrying, don't worry too much about that.