Before you give the ETRN command make sure you can
telnet vsfs1.valentinesystems.com 25
connect to the Exchange server from the IMail PC.
Your setup sounds correct to me.
Dave
In reply to 07 Feb message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>I have read documents im-19990603-dm02, im-19981216-ck6,and
>im-19980116-dm01.
>I have tried everything suggested to the T and cannot get
>ERTN to work. I am not sure if I am doing something wrong.
>Please help.
>Here is my scenario...
>My mail server name is mail.nncorp.com. The MS Exchange 5.5
>server I am trying to have to dial into it's ISP to retrieve
>its e-mail is called
>VSFS1 and it's IP address is 192.168.0.1. It will be pulling
>mail for valentinesystems.com
>This is how I set it up...
>1) I deleted all references to valentinesystems.com in IMAIL.
>2) In Windows NT's DNS, I created two MX record's which
>looked like this
>valentinesystems MX [10] vsfs1.valentinesystems.com
>valentinesystems MX [20] mail.nncorp.com
>3) In the HOSTS file (c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\), I
>added the following line:
>192.168.0.1 rvalentinesystems.com
>4) I then sent an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
>checked the queue tab in IMAIL server and I can see the
>message. Before I even finishing setting up the exchange
>servers' Internet Mail Connector, I wanted to use the ETRN
>command myself to test the setup.
>5) I telnetted into port 25 of the local mail server like
>this:
>telnet mail.nncorp.com 25 and received the smtp response...
>6) I then typed ETRN valentinesystems.com (like the
>directions stated)
>and I receive a message that the messages for
>valentinesystems.com are being queued, but nothing else
>happened. Am I supposed to see instant results such as text
>displaying on the screen? or do I have to type another
>command(s) to get the mail to come to me? Please help. Once I
>get this to
>work, the exchange server will not be a problem. I already
>have it set up
>to send messages out...
>Any help would be greatly appreciated...
>Thanks.
>Troy
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