Exchange server problem ( I think )

Hi,

I have set up an Exchange 2003 server ( on win2k3), behind an ISA server.:

ISP - (staticwanip)cisco(C826)router(10.0.0.99)-(10.0.0.203)ISAserver(192.168.0.2)- (192.168.0.1 )domain network And exchange server
only port 25 is open for incomming mail to the exchange server.

Problem:
The exchange server can send mail to all domains: @hotmail.com / @gmail.com / @skynet.be / ...
And he can recieve the mails from all domains but...
But It can't recieve mails from hotmail.

I see hotmail.com connecting in SMTP sessions for 600 seconds.
Can someone help me, so hotmail.com (and some others) can deliver his mails?

Thank you.

 

Heres a qoute from slashdot that you might find funny.
"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.

 

thank you
mail server: vbslochristi.be

 

Is this hosted on a dsl connection? Hotmail may be blacklisting your mail server.

 

it is inbound that a problem is... not outbound

ADSL line, static ip adres

 

Found this from http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=vbslochristi.be
Your domain does not have an SPF record. This means that spammers can easily send out E-mail that looks like it came from your domain, which can make your domain look bad (if the recipient thinks you really sent it), and can cost you money (when people complain to you, rather than the spammer). You may want to add an SPF record ASAP, as 01 Oct 2004 was the target date for domains to have SPF records in place (Hotmail, for example, started checking SPF records on 01 Oct 2004).

 

ok I'll add it. But that couldn't be the problem that hotmail.com cant deliver his mail... I think.

 

Hi. We are using MS Exchange Server 2003 running on POP3 Clients. Our current DB size is 33GB (31GB .STM file and 2GB .EDB file).

Question: How do we reduce our database size especially the .STM file?

We did delete unnecessary emails on every users mailboxes, delete unnecessary users mailbox on the store, and do also offline defragmentation.

But after offline defragmentation, database size seems untouched and result to the same size as before.

Is there anything I missed to perform to fully reduce our exchange database size?

any help would be highly appreciated.

Many thanks,
- James

 

This should probably be posted in a new thread actually. Im researching it though, id like to know as well.