Any windows server 2008 admins here?

[venus]

anyone know their way around/trouble shooting a windows server 2008? Mine crashed, did a reinstall of the OS now its not letting my mailing list program send mail... I have a mail server on it and it sends and receives mail just fine..some reason my list program will not work. this is a dedicated server located in the Netherlands. where its located at, they don't do any software trouble shooting..

[venus]

I know it was a long shot, but still looking

Originally Posted by venus

anyone know their way around/trouble shooting a windows server 2008? Mine crashed, did a reinstall of the OS now its not letting my mailing list program send mail... I have a mail server on it and it sends and receives mail just fine..some reason my list program will not work. this is a dedicated server located in the Netherlands. where its located at, they don't do any software trouble shooting..

[Pornopat]

Bump for Venus

[Frank21]

start with looking in your error files, in the Event Viewer!

[venus]

nothing there relating to this issue

server 2008 has been nothing but a pain in the ass..the old server 2003 worked perfect for me....waiting to hear back from icewarp if their email server will run on centOS so I can drop windows and just move to Linux

Originally Posted by Frank21

start with looking in your error files, in the Event Viewer!

[Klen]

Originally Posted by venus

nothing there relating to this issue

server 2008 has been nothing but a pain in the ass..the old server 2003 worked perfect for me....waiting to hear back from icewarp if their email server will run on centOS so I can drop windows and just move to Linux

That is what i did when i had windows server.Spending time to learn about windows server is just waste of time.

[Adraco]

Does your list program need any special services to run?
Maybe that was installed on your machine at first but now maybe that specific service isn't enabled to auto-start?

Can also try the classic ones,
restart the mail server, the IIS and the Exchange storage (if using Exchange setup). Even if they say "started" those can sometimes need a "forced restart" to take care of God know what type of errors.

[Paully]

Why are you using that, DRM?

[Panty Snatcher]

catch me on icq or send me an email and we can chat on skype

I am a win-sucks pervert ( opps i mean expert )

[Babaganoosh]

What mta are you using? Does it have logs you can review? If mail is going to the same domain but mail is hosted externally, disable mail locally so it will be delivered to the proper location.

[Babaganoosh]

Dupe post

[venus]

no, its just a perl script...I saw where the message was in the maildir, but from there it does nothing, does not go out and does not show up in the admin panel and being sent...maybe because its a 64bit OS...I don't know

Originally Posted by Adraco

Does your list program need any special services to run?
Maybe that was installed on your machine at first but now maybe that specific service isn't enabled to auto-start?

Can also try the classic ones,
restart the mail server, the IIS and the Exchange storage (if using Exchange setup). Even if they say "started" those can sometimes need a "forced restart" to take care of God know what type of errors.

[venus]

I use icewarp (www.icewarp.com ) there is nothing in the logs about it, even tried blat and it did not send out. thing is, when you do a double optin, it send out the email for you to confirm it but will not send out the list

Originally Posted by Babaganoosh

What mta are you using? Does it have logs you can review? If mail is going to the same domain but mail is hosted externally, disable mail locally so it will be delivered to the proper location.

[baddog]

Does this mean I am finally opted off your mailing list?

[Ferus]

Check authentication for smtp relay and set up correct spf record at your dns, on the outgoing domain used for sending

[venus]

this was all done long ago

Originally Posted by Ferus

Check authentication for smtp relay and set up correct spf record at your dns, on the outgoing domain used for sending

[itx]

Maybe the guys of http://serverbuddies.com/ can help with your issue, they're very professional and in the past helped me with very complex server issues.

[Ferus]

Originally Posted by venus

this was all done long ago

If its for venuscash.com, there is no SPF record

[Ferus]

Try creating a sendmail script, to see if the relay is working.
(source: http://www.paulsadowski.com/wsh/cdo.htm )


-Open a new notepad

-Paste this in:

Const cdoSendUsingPickup = 1 'Send message using the local SMTP service pickup directory. 
 Const cdoSendUsingPort = 2 'Send the message using the network (SMTP over the network). 

 Const cdoAnonymous = 0 'Do not authenticate
 Const cdoBasic = 1 'basic (clear-text) authentication
 Const cdoNTLM = 2 'NTLM

 Set objMessage = CreateObject("CDO.Message") 
 objMessage.Subject = "Example CDO Message" 
 objMessage.From = """YourName"" <[email protected]>" 
 objMessage.To = "[email protected]" 
 objMessage.TextBody = "This is some sample message text.." & vbCRLF & "It was sent using SMTP authentication."

 '==This section provides the configuration information for the remote SMTP server.

 objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _
 ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing") = 2 

 'Name or IP of Remote SMTP Server
 objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _
 ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = "mail.your.com"

 'Type of authentication, NONE, Basic (Base64 encoded), NTLM
 objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _
 ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenticate") = cdoBasic

'Your UserID on the SMTP server
 objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _
 ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername") = "youruserid"

 'Your password on the SMTP server
 objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _
 ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendpassword") = "yourpassword"

 'Server port (typically 25)
 objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _
 ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport") = 25 

 'Use SSL for the connection (False or True)
 objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _
 ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpusessl") = False

 'Connection Timeout in seconds (the maximum time CDO will try to establish a connection to the SMTP server)
 objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _
 ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpconnectiontimeout") = 60

 objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Update

 '==End remote SMTP server configuration section==

 objMessage.Send

- Fill in the name, server, username password ect.


- Save the file as mail.vbs

- Doubleclick and check if it can send mail

[venus]

venuscash does not have a spf record, only my mail domain names vcomm.net and landofvenus.com , both DKIM and spf

Originally Posted by Ferus

If its for venuscash.com, there is no SPF record

[venus]

thanks ITX, used serverbuddies and they were great..all is working fine now .. I switched my mail stuff from the crappy win 2008 server to a Linux CentOS server and they got everything running perfect..very cheap also

Originally Posted by itx

Maybe the guys of http://serverbuddies.com/ can help with your issue, they're very professional and in the past helped me with very complex server issues.