Aug 9, 2011
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Difficulty in setting up SMTP on my server

Question

I’m setting up my server for the first time and I’ve run into an issue in trying to send mail using SMTP. As per the suggestion of a few answers on SF, I’ve used SMTPDiag to try and diagnose the issue and it seems the issue is ‘Failed to connect to the domain controller. Error: 8007054b’.

Can anyone help me to make sense of this error?

Searching for Exchange external DNS settings.
Computer name is XXX.
Failed to connect to the domain controller. Error: 8007054bChecking SOA for gmail.com.
Checking external DNS servers.
Checking internal DNS servers.
SOA serial number match: Passed.Checking local domain records.
Checking MX records using TCP: gmail.com.
Checking MX records using UDP: gmail.com.
Both TCP and UDP queries succeeded. Local DNS test passed.Checking remote domain records.
Checking MX records using TCP: gmail.com.
Checking MX records using UDP: gmail.com.
Both TCP and UDP queries succeeded. Remote DNS test passed.Checking MX servers listed for XXX@gmail.com.
Connecting to gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [74.125.77.27] on port 25.
Successfully connected to gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
Connecting to alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [74.125.127.27] on port 25.
Successfully connected to alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
Connecting to alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [74.125.95.27] on port 25.
Successfully connected to alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
Connecting to alt3.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [74.125.157.27] on port 25.
Successfully connected to alt3.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
Connecting to alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [74.125.91.27] on port 25.
Successfully connected to alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.

Thank you in advance!

Answer

Check out the following for a detailed walk-through on your output – http://msmvps.com/blogs/bernard/archive/2004/09/28/14480.aspx. Based on the information contained within the blog, you may be perfectly fine…

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