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Troubleshooting problems related to out-bound emails

• A user Mary (mary@yourCompany.com) wants to send an email to John (John@BusinessPartner.com)
• John is a user on the Internet who may or may not use Xeams
• Mary is a user on your network and has specified the host name or IP address of Xeams' machine in her MS Outlook or Thunderbird client.

	Step 1 - Mary clicks the send button in her email client and gets an error. Possible reasons for such error are: The value for SMTP server is incorrectly specified in her email client. Click here for a resolution. Mary's machine is not allowed to relay or she is not configured to use Authentication. Click here to allow relaying or here to use SMTP authentication Xeams server is not running or there is no network connectivity from Mary's machine to the server.
	Step 2 - Message is received by Xeams. Click here to see how to verify this step. Step 3 - Once an out-bound message arrives in Xeams it will: Pass through filters Will be sent to out-bound message queue. If for any reason Xeams is not able to deliver the message to the final destination, it will sit in a folder called OutboundMailQueue. There could be several reason why an out-bound message cannot be delivered. Below are the most common problems. MX record for the destination server cannot be found in DNS The destination server is not responding The destination server won't accept the message There are several log files that you can monitor to see what happens to a particular message. These logs files are: SMTPOutboundConversation.log SmtpQueue.log OutboundAuditTrailFailure.log
	Step 4 - Message is delivered to the final destination. To confirm if a message was delivered, search for the recipients email address in OutboundAuditTrailSuccess.log file. If you see an entry in this log file, that means the recipient server has accepted the message. If the end-user claims that they did not receive it, that means a problem on their end.