Unable to get incoming mails

ken not at home.mil
Mon Aug 2 20:53:58 UTC 1999


	I beleive this is an Exchange problem. Look at the internet
connector properties. On the routing tab you should have a list of (or
maybe one) domains and a route for each. All domains that exchange
should accept mail for should be routed to <inbound>.

On 28 Jul 1999 22:38:13 -0700, "Kandhalu Bhaskar"
<ksb at blore.tcs.co.in> wrote:

>I have a Linux m/c as a front-end to the internet running BIND 4.9.6.  Then
>I have 2 WinNT machines acting as Primary and Seconday DNS servers, again
>running on BIND 4.9.6. The secondary DNS machine also acts as Mail server,
>running MS Exchange 5.5 + Internet mail service. Recently, the secondary
>DNS suffered a disk crash and we had to replace the disk and reinstall NT
>server, BIND and MS exchange.
>
>     We had a backup of the db files of BIND and was restored.
>
>     My problem now is that MS exchange is able to send outgoing mails but
>incoming mails are getting bounced with the message "The recipient name is
>not recognized. Unknown recipient". When I enable the logging in MS
>exchange, I can see that the incoming mail is coming as close as upto the
>mail server, but then gets bounced from there. I can even see a whole copy
>of the incoming mail in the log.
>
>     Is this a problem with the DNS configuration or MS Exchange - Internet
>mail service configuration.  And how to resolve this ?
>
>Thanking in advance
>
>Regards
>
>Bhaskar KS
>
>



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