Re: No access to site that is hosted by your ISP

From: Chris (ChrisSims_at_schoolofenglishstudies.co.uk)
Date: 07/05/04 

Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 14:20:22 +0100

Good plan. However, I am not allowed to use VPN nor OWA thanks to a
progressively-minded company boss. If I could it would be easy!

Thanks for the input.

Chris
"Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]" <kweilbacMVP@gte.net> wrote in message
news:OsLwxCpYEHA.3664@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> two choices that I can see -- both involve setting up a user account on
your
> server first for this remote person . then:
>
> 1. let them vpn to access their email/use OWA
> or
> 2. create an 'AD contact' for this person, listing their personal POP3
> address, and then associate this contact with their internal Exchange user
> id, and select to have all incoming mail forwarded out to the address
listed
> in the contact.
>
> --
> Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]
> "The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom long"
>
>
> "Chris" <ChrisSims@schoolofenglishstudies.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:%23nDaZYoYEHA.4004@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > I inadvertently set up our server with the same name as our domain
name -
> > how stupid was that as I knew it would cause problems. However, I have
> > resolved the problem through the DNS forward zone as explained on the
> > smallbizserver site.
> >
> > We use pop mail and have a number of addresses allocated to our domain.
I
> > have set up a new address for a remote user,(xxx@ourdomain.co.uk), which
I
> > need to send mail to from our system, as the person works in a separate
> > location. There is no link between our network and the stand alone
> > computer. They would receive the mail by pop to outlook.
> >
> > When an email is sent to this address the server cannot find it in the
> > locally and returns an error stating that: "The e-mail account does not
> > exist at the organization this message was sent to" because it is not a
> > local mailbox.
> >
> > Is there any way to resolve this problem and send the mail to an
external
> > recipient?
> >
> > Any help appreciated.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
>
>

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