Question : SBS 2k3 unable to relay mails

Hello Experts,

All out mailboxes are hosted outside the organization, and we're receiving them via POP3.
We wanted to enable our SBS2k3 to receive those mails, by creating local mailboxes, and change the DNS route so the server will be the primary MX, and the current POP3 vendor will be the secondary - while all mailboxes will remain in both places (SBS + POP3 outside).

The DNS change has been done less than an hour ago - and yet to propagate completely.
We believed that this setup is almost risk-free, since the mails will be delivered to one of the MX's by the time the DNS change will be complete.

But the truth is different: when we send mail from another mail server\Googleapps - we're receiving a bounce with the following error:
server103.http.co.il #550-server.it-group.co.il [80.179.37.211]:2196 is currently not permitted to 550-relay through this server. Perhaps you have not logged into the pop/imap 550-server in the last 30 minutes or do not have SMTP Authentication turned on 550 in your email client. ##

I have no idea who's this server103... organization is, and i wonder why the mail does not received either on the SBS or on the original POP3 MBX?

Thanks in advance
Nir

Answer : SBS 2k3 unable to relay mails

It sounds like the values being returned are text values rather than numbers. If they are text values then, as you say, the 1 in 16 will be used and evaluated against 4, also MIN(A1,B1) will give 0

If you enclose your original INDEX/MATCH formula in a VALUE function, e.g.

=VALUE(INDEX(A1:A10,MATCH(C1,B1:B10,0)))

then that should return a number as required

Alternatively use

=A1+0>B1+0

or

=MIN(A1+0,B1+0)

regards, barry