We have an IIS SMTP server that is configured to send mails to our own domain.
Our domain is correctly configured in the SMTP Domains and mails arrive without problems. So, the problem is not that mails are sent to the domain the server resides in.
However, we have some BAD mails that we need to recover.
We stopped SMTP, copied the BAD mails to the Pickup folder, drop the BAD extention and restarted the service. The messages left correctly.
When they arrive at our Exchange server, we see that the MessageId has been changed and the mail is refused consequently.
In the included screenshot the first two mails arrived, the rest are the BAD mails that we tried to recover.
Probably something is wrong with the message structure:
From: postmaster@vpsxxxx.ad.ourdomain.be To: tarief@mail.ourdomain.be Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 05:21:10 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status; boundary="9B095B5ADSN=_01CDF3EF22D70E680000002Dvpsxxxx.ad.apb." X-DSNContext: 7ce717b1 - 1413 - 00000004 - C00402D1 Message-ID: <FRaqbC8wS00000011@vpsxxxx.ad.ourdomain.be> Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Delay) This is a MIME-formatted message. Portions of this message may be unreadable without a MIME-capable mail program. --9B095B5ADSN=_01CDF3EF22D70E680000002Dvpsxxxx.ad.apb. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unicode-1-1-utf-7 This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification. THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY. YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE. Delivery to the following recipients has been delayed. tarief@mail.ourdomain.be --9B095B5ADSN=_01CDF3EF22D70E680000002Dvpsxxxx.ad.apb. Content-Type: message/delivery-status Reporting-MTA: dns;vpsxxxx.ad.ourdomain.be Received-From-MTA: dns;vpsxxxx Arrival-Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:52:19 +0100 Final-Recipient: rfc822;tarief@mail.ourdomain.be Action: delayed Status: 4.4.7 Will-Retry-Until: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 16:53:02 +0100 --9B095B5ADSN=_01CDF3EF22D70E680000002Dvpsxxxx.ad.apb. Content-Type: message/rfc822 Received: from vpsxxxx ([127.0.0.1]) by vpsxxxx.ad.ourdomain.be with Microsoft SMTPSVC(7.5.7601.17514); Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:52:19 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 From: tarief@mail.ourdomain.be To: tarief@mail.ourdomain.be Date: 24 Jan 2013 16:52:19 +0100 Subject: Aanpassing Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-Path: tarief@mail.ourdomain.be Message-ID: <vpsxxxxjoYAPNXRPmc0000000c@vpsxxxx.ad.ourdomain.be> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Jan 2013 15:52:19.0410 (UTC) FILETIME=[CA6A4B20:01CDFA4A]<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "h= ttp://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">=0D=0A<ht= ml xmlns=3D"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">=0D=0A<head>=0D=0A <= title></title>=0D=0A=0D=0A <style type=3D"text/css">=0D=0A body=0D=0A= {=0D=0A font-family: Verdana;=0D=0A font-weight: normal;=0D=0A= font-size: 12px;=0D=0A color: #066;=0D=0A }=0D=0A </style>=0D=0A=</head>=0D=0A<body>=0D=0A=0D=0A<p>