Re: Smart Host and outlook configuration
- From: sas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:28:11 -0400
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:45:32 -0400, "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
<lanwench@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In news:crogc21gk2s7rkind8u14mr2do0kv47gbc@xxxxxxx,
sas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <sas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
I have 2003 SBS using exchange. Until tonight, I had both an exchange
server client and ISP pop3 account both in my account setting within
outlook on my workstations. It worked mostly except for when my users
sent to comcast.net and a few other domains. Then there sent items got
rejected. I am trying to set up a smart host to replace my ISP hosted
pop3 accounts to get around the anti-spamming measure by various
providers. If I am using smart host, do I now get rid of the pop3
account and leave just the exchange server client in my outlook
accounts settings ? How will my users get mail from their individual
mailboxes at the ISP using smart host. Exchange needs to somehow
route/separate the ISP mail for each user to the exchange mailbox for
the individual. I guess I'm not used to thinking in exchange server
conventions because there's something I'm missing regarding the
routing thing. I'm not sure why it's not working - either something is
wrong with my smart host setup or my outlook client setup on my
workstation. I know this is basic but I have to start somewhere. Also,
is there a 15 minute limit like the POP connector solution whereby
exchange only request mail from the isp every 15 minutes at best ?
Thanks in advance for any help !
A smarthost is for *sending* mail - you tell your server to direct all mail
for either specific domains or all domains, to another SMTP server for
relay - usually via an SMTP connector. This is done often when you have a
dynamic public IP or for myriad other reasons are finding that other mail
servers reject mail from you.
It has nothing to do with your receiving mail from your externally hosted
accounts. For that, you either need to keep using a POP account in Outlook,
or set up the POP connector on SBS (neither of which I recommend) or
forward the mail from your ISP's mail server to your Exchange mailbox/email
address and start weaning your senders off it.
The SBS POP connector isn't part of Exchange, isn't very configurable, and
if you need assistance with it you might try posting in
micrsoft.public.windows.server.sbs. However, note that POP connectors aren't
recommended; if you have a domain name, I suggest you start using it for all
your mail and stop using jane123@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and so forth....
Thanks for the response. We do actually have our own domain name.
Should we move the mx records to point to our SBS server and get our
static IP set with reverse DNS. I have read that this still is subject
to mail rejection ?
Regarding my present configuration, I will leave ISP account in my
settings with exchange for now. Should the ISP account settings use
something other than the smtp server name that we've been using prior
to exchange server, ie. keep the incoming and outgoing isp mail server
settings the same as if it were a stand alone outlook installation or
should the outgoing mail server name in the isp account now be
replaced with the exchange server's smtp connector ? I don't even
know how i'd reference if that is what is required. For example if the
isp account was using outgoing.verizon.net before would it still be
outgoing.verizon.net. BTW we aren't using verizon. I assume that the
incoming would not change since as you stated this smart hosting is
only concerned without outbound mail ?
Thanks again
.
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