Re: Exchange 2003 - Problem: Internal forwarding of external e-mail

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matts68nova@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
The factors are: Exchange 2003 Standard in SBS 2003 R2 / Domain is
@XXX.local / Used for internal e-mail for 25 users / POP3 is setup on
5 clients to connect to ISP for external e-mail / An SMTP address for
the external e-mail has been setup in AD with it being set as
primary. / On the client, Exchange is set as primary / Exchange is set
use DNS

All of this seems to work fine. The issue comes when an external e-
mail is received by the internal client (with or without attachments)
and then is 'forwarded' to an internal recipient. When doing so the
forwarded e-mail is actually sent out through the POP3 connection
rather than through the Exchange server. I then of course get an NDR
specifying that it was caught as spam and expectedly shows the sending
e-mail address of @XXX.local.

Can anyone point out a fix for this. This is an office that relies
heavily on this function. When the information is cut and pasted into
a new e-mail for the internal recipient the e-mail goes fine. However,
some of these forwarded e-mails include several attachments and
cutting and pasting is not a viable option.

This may not be what you want to hear, but stop using POP3 - register an
Internet domain if you don't have one already, host the email directly on
the Exchange server via SMTP, use only Exchange in the Outlook profiles, and
watch this and most of your other mail problems go away.



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