I just set up a standlone SPS2013 installation on a Server 2012 Standard box.
I have outgoing email settings configured and for the most part, those are working. Alerts to documents and lists are received. And when someone is “followed,” those emails are sent and received as well. However, email notifications for newsfeeds are never received.
I found a few mentions of this on the MS Technet forums and the suggested fixes in those instances were a.) an additional MX record for SharePoint and b.) authentication methods settings for the send connector on the Exchange server. In both cases, the details were very sketchy and I’m not sure it applies in this case anyway.
Anyone have any ideas? Maybe a symptom of the limitations in a standalone enviroment? I know the User Syncronization server isn’t the same as in a Farm Envirnoment…
Thanks in advance for any comments.
Wayne
Hi Wayne I’m having the same problem too.
I’m not sure exactly what causes it but I can guess that normal alert email are using the sp utility mechanism to send emails and for some reason the newsfeed notification are using direct smpt.
First thing to do is make sure your email is relaying through exchange. Â On which ever server is running your timer jobs run the following powershell command to send a test email:
$smtp = New-Object Net.Mail.SmtpClient("ho-ex2010-caht1.exchangeserverpro.net")
$smtp.Send("reports@exchangeserverpro.net","administrator@exchangeserverpro.net","Test Email","This is a test")
Source
If you get an email then you are relaying if not you will need to add a receive connector in exchange to allow your servers IP addresses to send emails.
I followed this guide
Here are the things I’ve tried which aren’t working for me:
I came accross a post about a bamboo solutions alert product not working
http://community.bamboosolutions.com/forums/t/32333.aspx
Basically the error I’m getting in the logs is:
System.Net.Mail.SmtpException: Mailbox unavailable. The server response was: 5.7.1 Client does not have permissions to send as this sender
So I gave the Farm account which is running the timer jobs a mailbox, restarted the timer service even all machines in the farm but still didn’t work.
I gave everyone send permissions on that mailbox but again still didn’t work.
Next I gave the app pool that was running MySItes a mailbox in case that was the problem and again nope didn’t workÂ
So I gave up and created a new receive connector in exchange but that hasn’t worked either so I’m back to sq 1.
I’ve been looking into this since yesterday so might give it the weekend before i take another look.
On a side note I’ve never had to give the farm account a mailbox in any other setups I’ve done so this is pretty strange. Â Also because emails relay from my farm there is really no need for the connector or MX record, it’s got to be something else.
I will keep you posted if I manage to get it working, you could try the things i have done as one might work for you.
Cheers
Stephen
