RE: Considerations for Exchange before setup.

Hi.

I understand You wanna deploy a completely new exchange environment in your
business? That's a little bit mor sophisticated task, where You should either
read some deployment guide or get someone with know-how on board, as there
are more considerations then mail routing.

However, You need at minimum the following:
- an static public IP address assigned to the Exchange Server or
Port-Mapping on Your NAT server to forward any incoming SMTP to the private
Exchange Server IP address
- registered public DNS Domain for Your business (I expect, You have that
already)
- either configure Your SMTP server to forward outgoing traffic to a Smart
Host provided by Your ISP or ensure, that Your SMTP server is able to resolve
foreign domains in public DNS (Port 53)
- open Port 25 (SMTP) for incoming and outgoing traffic on the firewall
- MX records in Your public DNS domain adjusted to Your SMTP Server IP
address.
- and of course correctly configured SMTP Server / Connector

You should however check for issues with open relaying, antivirus,
redundancy, performance, backup, etc..

Hope, it helped You somehow..

Dave

"Sajid Saeed" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am a newbee in Exchange, and i have the following setup, so based on
> this setup what would be the best options to setup internet mail in
> the exchage domain.
>
> Windows 2000 Server (domain & now also exchange) SP4
> Windows XP clients - SP2
>
> internet access is via a static IP address ADSL connection. (ie ADSL
> Router is connected on the Local LAN)
>
> So what ports should i have forwarded to the exchange server, and what
> settings should be setup in the external DNS, as there is no local
> DNS.
>
> Your advice would be highly appreciated
>
> Sajid Saeed
>
.

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