Try the following from another machine on the same subnet of the filer

telnet $MAILHOST 25
Helo itsme

250 OK <--- SERVER RESPONSE

MAIL FROM:  $AUTOSUPPORT_FROM address (The address you've configured for options autosupport.from) 

250 OK <--- SERVER RESPONSE

RCPT TO: $YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS

250 OK <--- SERVER RESPONSE

DATA
test test test test 
. <---- final dot and \r\n

250 ok <--- SERVER RESPONSE. 

If you can't connect at all, or the exchange server says something other than 250 OK then you've either got a network or name resolution problem (can't connect at all) or the Exchange server is not allowing you to relay (Probably some error message like 550 Relaying Denied.)

If the mailserver gives you a 250, then it's accepted responsibility for delivering the email. 

~Max






On Feb 12, 2008, at 11:43 AM, Clark, Andre wrote:

Exchange is set up not to be an open relay.  You need to add your system’s IP address to the Exchange server you are using to allow the SMTP messages to go through.
 
AC
 
From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Daniel Keisling
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 14:08
To: Kenneth Heal; toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: RE: Autosupport failing to mailhost
 
Does the autosupport.support.transport option only use smtp or https when delivering to NetApp?  In this case (https), it works fine.  NetApp is receiving my autosupports. 
 
What's not working is local mail to me.  I tried this on another filer at another site (except for the mailhost (another Exchange 2003 server), all the autosupport settings are the same) and the email to my local account came immediately, as well as a notification from NetApp.  The log even said:
 
Feb 12 14:11:57 EST [wilstore2a: asup.smtp.sent:notice]: Cluster Notification mail sent: Cluster Notification from wilstore2a (USER_TRIGGERED (testing_from_wilstore)) INFO
 
This was definitely sent via smtp, yet the autosupport.support.transport is set to https.

Daniel
 

From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Kenneth Heal
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 12:33 PM
To: Daniel Keisling; toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: RE: Autosupport failing to mailhost
Hi Daniel

I see a line which says
autosupport.support.transport https

Which means the filer will use https to send autosupports, and not smtp.

Can you try
options autosupport.support.transport smtp

And see if the mails go through?

cheers
Kenneth

Kenneth Heal
Databasement BV
The Netherlands

Subject: Autosupport failing to mailhost
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:22:51 -0600
From: daniel.keisling@austin.ppdi.com
To: toasters@mathworks.com
Hello,
 
From what seems out of the blue, Autosupport emails are no longer able to be sent to my mailhost (Exchange 2003 on the same subnet):
 
"Autosupport cannot connect to host rtpmail01.americas.ppdi.local (Network comm problem) for message: USER_TRIGGERED (TEST)"
 
This message will be thrown until the message is eventually dropped.  My Exchange administrator does not see any connections coming from the filer to send this email.  I can ping the mailhost with no problem:
 
rtpstore2b> ping rtpmail01.americas.ppdi.local
rtpmail01.americas.ppdi.local is alive
My routing table:
 
Destination      Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use  Interface
default          172.20.63.254      UGS         4   222239  e0a
127              localhost          UGS         0    22236  lo
localhost        localhost          UH          3      145  lo
172.20.62/23     link#4             UC          0        0  e0a
rtpmail01.americ 0:8:2:28:ee:86     UHL         0       11  e0a
rtpexchbe01.amer 0:8:2:28:ee:86     UHL         0        0  e0a
rtpstore2b       0:a0:98:9:66:53    UHL         0    18112  lo
My autosupport options:
 
rtpstore2b> options autosupport
autosupport.cifs.verbose     off
autosupport.content          complete
autosupport.doit             DONT
autosupport.enable           on
autosupport.from             rtpstore2b at rtp.ppdi.com
autosupport.local.nht_data.enable off
autosupport.local.performance_data.enable off
autosupport.mailhost         rtpmail01.americas.ppdi.local
autosupport.minimal.subject.id hostname
autosupport.nht_data.enable  on
autosupport.noteto
autosupport.performance_data.enable on
autosupport.retry.count      15         (value might be overwritten in takeover)
autosupport.retry.interval   4m         (value might be overwritten in takeover)
autosupport.support.enable   on
autosupport.support.proxy
autosupport.support.to       autosupport at netapp.com
autosupport.support.transport https
autosupport.support.url      support.netapp.com/asupprod/post/1.0/postAsup
autosupport.throttle         on
autosupport.to               storage at wilm.ppdi.com
(I've replaced the @'s with 'at')
 
I have no problems with my SSH session, so I don't know how this could be a network cable/connection problem.  Are there any debugging steps I can do?  Has anyone seen this before?  It has definitely worked in the past.  This is DOT 7.2.2 on a FAS3040.
 
TIA,
 
Daniel
 


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