Re: company.local address mess - need help...
- From: "Bob Christian" <BobChristian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 11:07:24 -0500
RTW:
You will need to configure a recipient policy for your domain.
You will need to check your current users e-mail addresses to make sure that
they are not name@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Relevant articles:
http://computerperformance.co.uk/exchange2003/exchange2003_recipient_policy.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319201
Bob
"RTW Store" <xxxRTWStore@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uLA37VbOFHA.2928@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> I need to sovle an email address configuration mess that is causing
numerous
> undelivered/bounced emails from our corporate system.
>
> I believe the issue stems from having given the server the domain
> abccompany.local instead of abccompany.com. We own and deliver all our
> real-world email to abccompany.com, but some emails and all appointment
> invitations seem to be from email address 'name@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx', which
> obviously fails to deliver when it hits the real world.
>
> My setup is:
>
> >Small Business Server 2000 - (15 users)
> > server was named ABCServer.ABCcompany.local (per MS setup
> > instructions?)
> > every Exchange Account has a abccompany.com SMTP address added, and
set
> > as mail/default SMTP address (I have verified this repeatedly)
> > we own the realworld domain "abccompany.com" registered in DNS
> > correctly, working, delivering mail readily to POP3 accounts at ISP
> >mail is POPed from individual accounts at ISP (Hiring Client insisted on
> >retaining POP3 delivery so they can use the ISP's webmail if our
broadband
> >link or server hardware goes down)
> >each workstation has Outlook 2002, with Exchange account as 'default
> >delivery' location, and a POP3 account internet mail.
> >>Order of deliver of Services is set to Internet, then Exchange mail -
> >>staff was told to NEVER use a .local address, and email goes out fine if
> >>it is an original email with real-world address. ???could this be the
> >>issue?
>
> >> have tried all sorts of combinations of hidding the local address from
> >> GAL, verifying that new emails from Exchange are using the default smtp
> >> address name@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> The problem remains that sometimes with email and always with Appointment
> invites, the return address is name@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, which means that if
an
> Exchange user and an realworld user are both invited to an Appt, the
> realworld user gets trash email address to return to, amoung other issues.
>
> QUESTION:
> > is this simply an invalid configuration? that is, there's just no way
to
> > make it work?
> > or does someone know a configuration (keeping the .local domain) that
> > would make this work?
>
> And, if I do make the jump to MX delivery directly to my Server, will/can
I
> retain the .local domain (since I have read repeatedly that it *cannot* be
> changed without trashing the install). Or do I need to re-install with
> domain set to abccompany.com to correctly send/rec email and appointments?
>
> Applogies in advance if this seemingly simple issue offends anyone - we
are
> trying to make thing work on limited resources and staff.
>
> Regards to all, Rich.
> RTWStore@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
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>
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