[BC] IT troubles

[Glen Kippel]

OK, thank you.  What I get there is "nonexistent domain."

>From Outlook Express I see a POP3 for incoming, and a SMTP for outgoing,
both of which work.  MS Outlook works for incoming, but cannot send.


On 1/10/08, RichardBJohnson at comcast.net <RichardBJohnson at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> The standard response for something like this is "Reboot
> every computer on the network..." The likely problem
> is that the mail-host for your domain has changed (your
> ISP generally manages that), but your local name-server
> is using a cached IP address. That's why rebooting everything
> generally clears these kinds of problems. However, you
> really don't need to reboot everything, only the machine
> you use as a mail host. You can find that machine by
> typing, at the 'CMD' prompt, nslookup mailhost.
>
> It should return with the name and IP address of the
> mail route out of your domain. You can then execute:
>
> telnet mailhost 25 and verify that it responds with some
> kind of "220" message. If it does, type quit to get out.
> If it does not, that is where your problem lies.
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Richard B. Johnson
>
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Glen Kippel" <glen.kippel at gmail.com>
> > have a big one at KDES-KPSI-etc. -- on December 12, most of the
> computers
> > stopped sending e-mail with Outlook.  Outlook Express will work, but
> > everybody wants to stick with MS Outlook.  They can receive e-mail OK,
> it's
> > sending it to the outside world that is not working.  Outlook works with
> the
> > in-house intranet, however.  Anybody run into something like this?  I
> just
> > started working for them and already I'm running out of ideas.  Thanx.
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