Re: Server name in SMTP communication

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Change fqdn from SMTP virtual server | Properties | Delivery | Advanced |
Fully-qualified Domain Name.

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Bharat Suneja
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www.zenprise.com
blog: www.suneja.com/blog
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<paulh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1137781839.584002.237190@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hello, I have a question which probably has a simple answer, but I
> can't find the solution. We have an Exchange 2003 server behind an ISA
> 2004 firewall. The Exchange services are published through ISA, and
> the Exchange server actually resides on an internal, private domain.
> Everything works fine, however when our Exchange server is
> communicating with external SMTP servers for mail delivery, it reports
> its name as the FQDN of our internal domain. This domain is unknown to
> the outside world, and I fear some systems will reject based on this.
> Is there a way to change the name that is used in SMTP communications,
> or is it always going to use the host name no matter what? Thank you!
>


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