"Mark Arnold [MVP]" <m***@mvps.org> wrote in message

>>I have a problem where I can email to a client but when he emails me it is
>>not received. I have even had them cc my hotmail address and that works
>>just
>>not my office address.
>>
>>Currently running Exchange 5.5.
>>
>>Any help is appreciated.
>
> Can't really go anywhere with this one until you tell us what, if any,
> message your recipient gets when he replies, what your firewall
> allows, what your DNS MX and A records say, what your sender gets when
> he (or his admin) does an nslookup and whether then SMTP address that
> you present to the outside world is even valid.

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> "Mark Arnold [MVP]" <m***@mvps.org> wrote in message
>
>>>I have a problem where I can email to a client but when he emails me it
>>>is
>>>not received. I have even had them cc my hotmail address and that works
>>>just
>>>not my office address.
>>>
>>>Currently running Exchange 5.5.
>>>
>>>Any help is appreciated.
>>
>> Can't really go anywhere with this one until you tell us what, if any,
>> message your recipient gets when he replies, what your firewall
>> allows, what your DNS MX and A records say, what your sender gets when
>> he (or his admin) does an nslookup and whether then SMTP address that
>> you present to the outside world is even valid.
>
> I have a  simillar problem  to the  OP, we can  send  email  but  for the
> past  couple  of  days  nothing  is  coming  in.
> Users do  not  recieve any  error  messages when  Outlook  does  a send
> and recieve.
>
> Not  sure  how  to  get  my  DNS MX records  for you.
>
> Port 25  is open in the router to  192.168.16.197 .  The  device  is a
> Linksys WAG54G with  DHCP and  the  firewall  both  disabled, the server
> has  2 NICs with the following addresses :
> LAN 192.168.16.2
> WAN 203.87.118.197
> Router  192.168.16.1
>
> Here is  the  result  from  nslookup which  also  looks  odd to  me [ but
> I am new  to  SBS2003 standard edition]
>
> Microsoft Windows [Version 5.2.3790]
> (C) Copyright 1985-2003 Microsoft Corp.
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>nslookup
> *** Can't find server name for address 192.168.16.2: Non-existent domain
> Default Server:  UnKnown
> Address:  192.168.16.2
>
> any  help  appreciated
> rgds
> Robert
>
>
>

"Mark Arnold [MVP]" wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 20:49:02 -0800, "James B"
> <Jam***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >I have a problem where I can email to a client but when he emails me it is
> >not received. I have even had them cc my hotmail address and that works just
> >not my office address.
> >
> >Currently running Exchange 5.5.
> >
> >Any help is appreciated.
>
> Can't really go anywhere with this one until you tell us what, if any,
> message your recipient gets when he replies, what your firewall
> allows, what your DNS MX and A records say, what your sender gets when
> he (or his admin) does an nslookup and whether then SMTP address that
> you present to the outside world is even valid.
>