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Unable to contact SMTP Host - ReadyNas
Model: ReadyNAS Pro 2 [X-RAID2] Serial: 2K231C0G010A4 Firmware: RAIDiator 4.2.27 Memory: 1024 MB [DDR3] Trying to setup alerting. Have tried email provider as 'custom' and 'i...
Found the solution
Figured it may be an Exchange issue as everything else looked ok.
Checked in EMC - server configuration - hub transport - receive connectors. Did not appear to be a connecter configured to allow the NAS to send. Added a new receive connector allowing mail to port 25 and specifying the NAS IP address. Authentication set to externally secured.
Configured NAS to send to/from appropriate email addresses and now tested ok.
Hope this helps!
If you are using a static IP address in the NAS, then make sure you have a DNS server configured.
You could use gmail as the SMTP server (sending from a gmail account to the appropriate "to" account).
Thanks for the prompt reply.
The NAS does have a static IP and the DNS server is configured (the correct one!).
Not sure I want to use a Gmail account when there is a perfectly good Exchange server running.
Unless of course this model won't talk to exchange...
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