Re: Exchange Server Forwarding to outside SMTP
From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 06/04/04
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Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 22:38:10 -0400
No worries - it's really pretty simple to set up. Post back if you need more
help, and best o' luck!
KenH wrote:
> Perfect, I really appreciate all of your help on this situation.
> I had considered looking in to what it would take to host our on mail
> server, but I just assumed that it would be way to difficult and
> didn't want to bother with it. I think I can handle what you have
> explained, though, and I will be doing this sometime soon. Thanks
> for all you help, I really appreciate it.
>
> Ken
>
> ----- Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote: -----
>
> No worries - you aren't changing anything but your domain's MX
> records in your public DNS. Your ISP or whomever hosts the DNS
> for your domain can make this change for you. They aren't
> changing your website host (www or whatever it is)...just where
> your mail goes.
>
> Ask them if they also offer 'backup' services and can put their
> own mail server in as a secondary MX record, so that if your
> server is unavailable, they can queue up mail for you and
> automatically retry delivery for X days. If you don't do this,
> note that it's probably not going to result in lost mail as the
> sender's server should automatically retry delivery, but it's a
> nicer way to go. If they won't do it, I know www.dyndns.org has
> a mailhop backupMX service for a very reasonable annual fee....
>
> KenH wrote:
> > Perfect, the external domain is our own personal domain. Last
> > question though, how will this affect our website. Currently
> the > company hosting our website also hosts our external email.
> Will our > website be affected by doing all this. We would
> still want our > hosting company to house our website which uses
> the same domain > address as our email addresses. I guess what
> I'm asking is, are we > going to have any problems having our
> website reside externally but > have the email come to our
> server. Again, I'm kind of new at this so > forgive my
> ignorance. >> Thanks for all your help,
> > Ken
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