FQDN and email getting kicked back

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From: John (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/17/04 

Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 06:27:12 -0700

I have a similar situation, but I seems to be getting
delays on some domains. I have an external domain of
hockey.org (which we own) and we have an internal domain
of hockey.local . We have an E2k3 server forwarding to a
w2K SMTP server. I am a little confused about what DNS
pointers I need to both internal and external. I also
had to set both exchange and smtp to HELO instead of EHLO
so they woudl talk to eachother ( i have no idea why I
had to do this).

Internally I have an MX for hockey.org pointing to
mail.hockey.org which has an A record pointing to the
exchange server. Then I have an MX record in
hockey.local pointing also to mail.hockey.org.

Externally I have an MX record poitning to
mail.hockey.org and an A record for mail.hockey.org to
192.168.1.1 (external of firebox).

Just recently (today) I tried creating an external for
mail2.hockey.org pointing to 192.168.1.1.

I have also changed the FQDN for the exchange server to
mail.hockey.org and for the smtp server
mail2.hockey.org. I have checked the headers on my mail
and I show nothing of the .local internal domain anymore.

Does this sound correct? Better way? Any ideas why I
have to set the SMTP to use HELO instead of EHLO?

Thanks
John

>-----Original Message-----
>Exchange System Manager > Exchange Server >
>Administrative Groups > Domain > Servers > Your Server >
>Protocols > SMTP > SMTP Virtual Server > Properties >
>Delivery tab > Advanced button > Set Fully-qualified
>domain name to your registered FQDN
(server.domain.com).
>Make sure your ISP has A record for server name.
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I need some help. Here is my setup. I have a Win 2003
>server/w Exchange 2003 with the internal unregistered
>domain of wrongdomain.com. My external registered
domain
>is rightdomain.net. I think that my email to AOL,
Yahoo,
>and EarthLink is getting sent back becuase it's shown
>that it's sent from the wrong domain instead of the
right
>one. Heres and example of part of a header from an
email
>sent from my exchange server to hotmail.
>>
>>Received: from wrongdomain.com ([xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]) by
>mc8-f8.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC
(5.0.2195.6824);
>Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:28:35 -0700
>>
>>The header shows my internal unregistered domain
instead
>of my registered domain.
>>
>>If I'm making any sense someone please help.
>>.
>>
>.
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