An Outlook question

[TopGun]

This should probably go in the techie bit but I am sure it affects loads of people who never read that forum.

When you reply to an email why does it sometimes do blue text? I find it irritating. It's a minor issue as obviously I can change it but starting to **** me off as I can't find a way to tell it to stay black text.

[Mewsta]

Which version of Outlook?! In 2007 do the following... I would assume its similar for 2003:

Open Outlook
Go to the Tools Menu
Select Options
Select the Mail Format tab
Click the Stationery and Fonts button
Click the Font button under the Replying or Forwarding messages section
Select your Font Colour and click OK all the way out of the options.....

[TopGun]

Which version of Outlook?! In 2007 do the following... I would assume its similar for 2003:

Open Outlook
Go to the Tools Menu
Select Options
Select the Mail Format tab
Click the Stationery and Fonts button
Click the Font button under the Replying or Forwarding messages section
Select your Font Colour and click OK all the way out of the options.....

Excellent. Thanks

[aids victim]

Geeks, I need your help.

I have an Exchange 2003 SBS server and it's sending external emails ok, plus internal is all fine, but for some reason we're unable to receive any emails. What the devil could it be?

The winner gets nothing but my respect and a feeling of warmth knowing that they've been helpful.

Spanks xx

[Mewsta]

Aids, do you get any failure messages returned to the original email?! If you do, post the failure message and I'll try and point you in the right direction!

[aids victim]

I got me one of these:

Reporting-MTA: dns;xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.local

Final-Recipient: rfc822;xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xx.xx
Action: delayed
Status: 4.0.0
Diagnostic-Code: smtp;451-host lookup did not complete
451 Could not complete sender verify
Will-Retry-Until: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:55:49 +0000
X-Display-Name: xxxx@xxxxxxxx.xx.xx

[Mewsta]

OK looks like the IP resolution on your domain is failing.

Can you confirm you have the following setup on your domains DNS records:

an 'A' record for @ - The IP Address should be the WAN address of your firewall

Then on the firewall you should have Port 25 open for incoming connections and a port forwarding rule assigned which forwards traffic from port25 to your exchange server.