Microsoft KB Archive/297139

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You Cannot Connect to Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Message Transfer Agent

Article ID: 297139

Article Last Modified on 10/28/2006



APPLIES TO

  • Microsoft Mobile Information Server 2002 Enterprise Edition
  • Microsoft Mobile Information Server 2001 Enterprise Edition



This article was previously published under Q297139


SYMPTOMS

When Mobile Information Server attempts to send a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) message by using Outlook Mobile Access from an Exchange Server 5.5 computer by using Collaboration Data Objects (CDO), the following event ID message is logged in the Application event log:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: SMTPCONN
Event Category: None
Event ID: 548
Date: 4/26/2001
Time: 5:53:11 AM
User: N/A
Computer: MISSERVER
Description:
Mobile Information Server SMTP Connector Service could not connect to SMTP Message Transfer Agent. Check that the SMTP service is correctly configured and is running.


CAUSE

This problem can occur due to CDO problems on the Exchange Server 5.5 computer.

This problem can also occur due to a hardware problem on the Mobile Information Server computer, for example, Mobile Information Server is unable to write to disk, or there is a network failure.


RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, check the following settings on your server to ensure CDO functionality:

  • Ensure that Outlook Web Access (OWA) functions
  • Name resolution
  • Remote procedure call (RPC) Connectivity

    -and-

  • Permissions

For additional information about troubleshooting, click the article numbers below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

200525 Using NSlookup.exe


180099 Troubleshooting LMHOSTS Name Resolution Issues


175892 XWEB: Permissions Required for Outlook Web Access


167260 XCLN: How to Use RPCPing to Test RPC Communication


154690 How to troubleshoot Event ID 9, Event ID 11, and Event ID 15 error messages


125329 XWEB: Deployment and Troubleshooting Outlook Web Access (OWA)


STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.


Additional query words: mmis mis

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