[Solved]Something went wrong and we haven’t been able to send your message yet
Issue:
Few day back, I was doing some testing on my Exchange 2016 installed on Windows Server 2016. I had an Active Directory server 2016 on my back-end to authenticate the Exchange Server. A moment ago, everything was running well and suddenly the mail-flow got stopped by prompting the error ‘Something went wrong and we haven’t been able to send your message yet’ and message started to get save in draft. Which I was not able to resend.
I thought this might be issue with my transport service and started to check each and every service… but no luck… I was still stucked with same error.
Resolution:
The first thing I made check on the DNS of the Exchange server, found it to be good. Nothing need to change.
Then I reboot my exchange server, if it is issue with the reboot because of any update got stucked and waiting for reboot to complete the sequence. After reboot, I checked it again… no luck still same issue. Somewhere in the internet I found this might be the DNS issue, although NSLookup is working good I made change on the HOST file of the Exchange server with the IP and HOSTNAME of the ACTIVE DIRECTORY.
And bingo… it is working. I don’t know why the DNS was working even though NSLOOKUP was good. But when I made change on the HOST FILE of the Exchange Server, everything is working good.
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pdhewjau
Prashant is a Microsoft MVP for Office Servers and Services. He works as Technical Lead on Thakral One and a Microsoft Certified Trainer for Windows Server, Exchange Server and office 365.
Thanks, had the same issue and modifying the hosts file resolved it. Thanks for sharing your solution.
Exchange2016/Server2016 Test Lab
This has been driving me crazy. The solution provided did not resolve it. Is there something else I can do?
Hi Ori, can you please check the connectivity of exchange server and Active Directory.
Hey Pdhewjau,
I would like to thank you for this fix as it worked for me.
I’ve been trying to deal with this issue for 4 days and tried everything and nothing worked. All my DNS resolving / pings worked fine and exchange health checks were all perfect yet mail flow was still not working at all.
I then stumbled across your blog and didn’t think your solution would do anything but I tried it anyway and mail started flowing instantly.
Was it all mail for you? Or some?
all emails Chris.
Was this problem intermittent and not ALL the time? I have the same issue but its not all the time, only for the users using OWA.
Thanks . Your post helped me resolve my newly installed exchange 2019 environment. Any idea why this behavior and where this issue is of course DNS resolutions are working fine.
Hello pdhewjau,
I am a beginner in exchange server. I have a little problem with setting up exchange server. Can you share step by step guide of exchange server configuration.
I tried to resolve as you mentioned. Is it correct the first dns lookup ip is Active directory server’s IP.
Hi there,
you can use this link. https://pdhewaju.com.np/2018/11/13/step-by-step-installing-exchange-2019/
This is good stuff, thanks for sharing your knowledge and experiences.
You got a new follower.
THX.It’s working.