Afternoon, everyone. I did an in-place upgrade of my Exchange 5.5 box this weekend and brought it up to 2000. For the most part, everything is looking hunky-dory, with one really heinous exception.
I have a web application written in PHP (don't ask, I had no say in the matter), that uses the Exchange box as an SMTP relay to send email notifications, "Forgot your password?" reminders, and the like. Worked fine (for the most part) under 5.5, but after the 2000 upgrade it just plain -stopped working-. I have tried playing around with the Relay settings on the Virtual SMTP server, up to and including configuring it as a wide open "Hey, SPAM-mers, over here!" relay, to no avail. I've enabled logging in the admin$\system32\LogFiles, as well as set the Diagnostic Logging under %SERVERNAME%\Diagnostic Logging\MSExchangeTransport\SMTPProtocol to Maximum. When I go to the web app and force a "Sorry, email's not working" error, I get the following entry in the SMTPSVC1 folder on the Exchange server: 2004-06-07 18:12:32 %IP-ADDRESS-OF-WEB-SERVER% localhost.localdomain SMTPSVC1 HELO 250 2004-06-07 18:12:32 %IP-ADDRESS-OF-WEB-SERVER% localhost.localdomain SMTPSVC1 QUIT 240 I see NOTHING in the Event Viewer logs, despite seeing any number of entries to the effect of: "IP Address w.x.y.z did not authenticate before attempting to send" ...from what I assume are SPAM-mers looking for an open relay. If anyone has any server configuration ideas that they can offer, I'd really appreciate it. Or if someone is a PHP-head (I'm entirely not one) who wouldn't mind looking at some code, contact me off-list. Thanks all! (No, not Al - though his posts are always informative - All!) ********************************************* Laura E. Hunter MCT, MCSE: Security, MVP - Windows Networking Senior IT Specialist University of Pennsylvania ******************************************** This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email, destroy all copies of the original message, and repent! Repent! Any views expressed in this email message, well-informed and intellectually unassailable as they may be, are those of the individual sender except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Student Financial Services. List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
