"Haggis" <Hag***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FE058E5E-0DF8-4DD9-88EB-7345AFFDB388@microsoft.com...
> We have an Exchange 2003 server on a Win2K3 box. All was functioning well
> up
> until early hours of this morning. Now all email flow has completely
> stopped.
> No incoming or outgoing or internal, and it appears that emails are not
> even
> getting to the SMTP Queue and are not sitting in users outbox either. All
> services are running and there do not appear to be any obvious event log
> errors. If i do a check in the message tracking centre, i only get to the
> third item 'Advanced Queue failed to deliver message' and no other message
> movement.
>
> HELP!

"Ed Crowley [MVP]" wrote:

> Can you telnet to port 25 of your bridgehead server, the one to which
> inbound SMTP mail is directed, and send a message?
>
> telnet server.domain.com 25
> helo you.domain.com
> mail from:***@yahoo.com
> rcpt to:***@domain.com
> data
> Subject:Test
> This is a test.
> ..
> quit
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/153119
>
> Do you see anything in the outbound queues?
>
> If you post your e-mail domain and a valid e-mail address someone here could
> test whether we can get to your server and send a message.
> --
> Ed  "Neeps and Tatties" Crowley MVP
> "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."
> ..
>
> "Haggis" <Hag***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:FE058E5E-0DF8-4DD9-88EB-7345AFFDB388@microsoft.com...
> > We have an Exchange 2003 server on a Win2K3 box. All was functioning well
> > up
> > until early hours of this morning. Now all email flow has completely
> > stopped.
> > No incoming or outgoing or internal, and it appears that emails are not
> > even
> > getting to the SMTP Queue and are not sitting in users outbox either. All
> > services are running and there do not appear to be any obvious event log
> > errors. If i do a check in the message tracking centre, i only get to the
> > third item 'Advanced Queue failed to deliver message' and no other message
> > movement.
> >
> > HELP!
>
>

"Ed Crowley [MVP]" wrote:

> Can you telnet to port 25 of your bridgehead server, the one to which
> inbound SMTP mail is directed, and send a message?
>
> telnet server.domain.com 25
> helo you.domain.com
> mail from:***@yahoo.com
> rcpt to:***@domain.com
> data
> Subject:Test
> This is a test.
> ..
> quit
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/153119
>
> Do you see anything in the outbound queues?
>
> If you post your e-mail domain and a valid e-mail address someone here could
> test whether we can get to your server and send a message.
> --
> Ed  "Neeps and Tatties" Crowley MVP
> "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."
> ..
>
> "Haggis" <Hag***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:FE058E5E-0DF8-4DD9-88EB-7345AFFDB388@microsoft.com...
> > We have an Exchange 2003 server on a Win2K3 box. All was functioning well
> > up
> > until early hours of this morning. Now all email flow has completely
> > stopped.
> > No incoming or outgoing or internal, and it appears that emails are not
> > even
> > getting to the SMTP Queue and are not sitting in users outbox either. All
> > services are running and there do not appear to be any obvious event log
> > errors. If i do a check in the message tracking centre, i only get to the
> > third item 'Advanced Queue failed to deliver message' and no other message
> > movement.
> >
> > HELP!
>
>

"Haggis" <Hag***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:23BD7671-122D-4597-98B6-B90D856F5524@microsoft.com...
> Found It. Our GFI MailSecurity software was causing the issue. Even though
> i
> stopped all of their services during fault finding, it wasn't until i
> uninstalled the software that mail started to flow again.
>
> All i have to do now is find out why it was doing this and hope it doesn't
> happen again.
>
> Thanks
>
> "Ed Crowley [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Can you telnet to port 25 of your bridgehead server, the one to which
>> inbound SMTP mail is directed, and send a message?
>>
>> telnet server.domain.com 25
>> helo you.domain.com
>> mail from:***@yahoo.com
>> rcpt to:***@domain.com
>> data
>> Subject:Test
>> This is a test.
>> ..
>> quit
>>
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/153119
>>
>> Do you see anything in the outbound queues?
>>
>> If you post your e-mail domain and a valid e-mail address someone here
>> could
>> test whether we can get to your server and send a message.
>> --
>> Ed  "Neeps and Tatties" Crowley MVP
>> "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."
>> ..
>>
>> "Haggis" <Hag***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:FE058E5E-0DF8-4DD9-88EB-7345AFFDB388@microsoft.com...
>> > We have an Exchange 2003 server on a Win2K3 box. All was functioning
>> > well
>> > up
>> > until early hours of this morning. Now all email flow has completely
>> > stopped.
>> > No incoming or outgoing or internal, and it appears that emails are not
>> > even
>> > getting to the SMTP Queue and are not sitting in users outbox either.
>> > All
>> > services are running and there do not appear to be any obvious event
>> > log
>> > errors. If i do a check in the message tracking centre, i only get to
>> > the
>> > third item 'Advanced Queue failed to deliver message' and no other
>> > message
>> > movement.
>> >
>> > HELP!
>>
>>