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[ovidiuo]

Hy there,

 

I am very new to windows 2008 server and my boss ask me to install it and to configure a web and a mail server on it.

 

I did it at first (it took me a while) then after a power failure the server had to be reinstalled. I had a backup on the second partition but i couldn't restore the partition table and had to take from scratch again.

 

I have a kerio mail server which is configured on 8080 port as the web server uses 80 port so for that matter all is good.

 

The problem is I can send emails anywhere but i cannot receive from exterior. I mean from within the domain i can send and receive but with exterior i can only send.

 

So my question is WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?

 

Thank you in advance

 

Yours sincerely Ovidiu Oprea

[mmthomas]

Do external sessions connect to the server at all or from the outside does it look like the server isn't on at all? If they are connecting, what kind of error messages or bounces are you getting when you try to send email from external?

 

If they are not connecting, first check your firewall and make sure it is still allowing mail traffic through. It is possible that your power failure may have caused a problem there, too. Even if it looks right, go ahead and restart it just in case. I've seen firewalls stop forward one particular type of traffic even when everything else looked like it was working correctly.