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I can no longer send mail, only receive. Exchange 2007, Outlook 2007 and iPhone 5. Cannot connect to outgoing smtp. It's worked for nearly 2 years and now, nothing. Nothing changed on my end.
I connect to a secondary e-mail address using POP/SMTP to my Exch. 2007 through outlook 2007 and iphone 5. It has worked flawlessly for nearly 2 years. Now, for some reason, it has stopped working on both. I have not changed anything on the exchange server.
However, if I'm within my work wifi...it works as always. If I turn wifi off on my phone...does not work.
However, if I'm within my work wifi...it works as always. If I turn wifi off on my phone...does not work.
What I think is that your external SMTP service configuration has changed.
are you able to ping the public IP of your SMTP service.
If you are using a fully qualified domain name, are you able to ping the FQDN? What IP is returned? Is this your public IP.
Are you able to telnet into your SMTP service Public IP and port.
e.g telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 25
or telnet mail.smtpdomain.com 25
or use SMTP Diagnostics if using default smtp port 25
Results to this test will hopefully tell us where the problem is.
are you able to ping the public IP of your SMTP service.
If you are using a fully qualified domain name, are you able to ping the FQDN? What IP is returned? Is this your public IP.
Are you able to telnet into your SMTP service Public IP and port.
e.g telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 25
or telnet mail.smtpdomain.com 25
or use SMTP Diagnostics if using default smtp port 25
Results to this test will hopefully tell us where the problem is.
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Thanks for the comments. I actually checked the log of my sonicwall firewall and saw that the SMTP request was being dropped due to an RBL listing. It subscribes to two well-known RBL services and I don't see ANY listing. But, when I disable RBL on the firewall, the SMTP call goes through and e-mail flows again. The firewall RBL is a secondary protection...so this suffices for now.
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That's great advise, and makes sense. Thank you.
Saying you made no changes, would suggest that your IP might have changed. Your Exchange server is configured to send through a server that might no longer exist. Look at the outgoing SMTP logs to get an understanding on what is going on. If logging not enabled, enable it and see what it reports. Send an email into the exchange and see what it tries to do.
Use whatismyip.com from the exchange.
What SMTP server do you have configured?