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
Ok so I tried again with adding in a receive connector to exchange.
I followed this guide
I created it specifically for my environment by adding in all the IP addresses of the machine and NLB that are allowed to send emails. I left the local IP addresses that can receive email to all (default).
I then enabled anonymous users on the receiver under the Permission group tab Left it for a bit and then tested.
Tested by @mentioning a user and running the daily notification job, It works now which is good but I’m still not 100% sure why it’s even needed.
I’m beginning to think the Mailbox unavailable message is misleading and it’s perhaps a limitation of which ever method SharePoint is using to send those emails.
On a side note I’m also getting the welcome email SharePoint send when you first create a MySite (never got that before).
I hope this helps someone else or maybe someone else will be able to shed a bit more light on the reasoning behind it.
Cheers
Stephen
