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From: Ken Schaefer (kenREMOVE_at_THISadOpenStatic.com)
Date: 09/22/04 

Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:03:48 +1000

Hi,

Personally I would recommend using a 3rd party mail server :-)
www.mailenable.com is pretty well featured (even the free version), and I've
found it rock solid.

However, if you want to continue using the Windows 2003 SMTP/POP3 server
then:

a) you can (usually) create any arbitary Windows account you want. However,
as you point out, you can't create them both as "user".

b) In the user's email client there are usually places to enter both a
username/password to collect mail (POP3) -and- a separate place to specify
user account settings to authenticate to send mail (SMTP).

My ISP has a single username/password that all users use to send mail, but
we each have a separate username/password to collect our individual mail (I
don't know if that's the most secure way to setting things up though!). So,
usernames to send mail are not tied to the user's mailbox name per se.

To see this, have a look in Outlook Express. Goto the properties of your
mail account. On the "servers" tab, there is an option to enter your mailbox
name + password. There is also a checkbox for "my outgoing mailserver
requires authentication". You can select that, and enter alternate
credentials to be used for sending mail.

Cheers
Ken

"Bill Seymour" <billsey@dsl-only.net> wrote in message
news:%235eM0v$nEHA.324@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> But if I have two users ('user@domain1.com' & 'user@domain2.com') who have
> the same username, how can I setup Windows accounts for them? I'm running
> three different domains right now, and anticipate wanting to support email
> for more in the future. I've never tried to create a Windows account for
> a fully qualified name, I just assumed that wasn't possible...
>
> Bill
>
> "Ken Schaefer" <kenREMOVE@THISadOpenStatic.com> wrote in message
> news:e46EVk6nEHA.3460@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>>
>> "Bill Seymour" <billsey@dsl-only.net> wrote in message
>> news:u3aR$m4nEHA.4032@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>>> Thanks again Ken.
>>>
>>> b) I'm setup for encrypted password file authentication, since I
>>> understand that using Windows authentication requires that I setup a
>>> Windows account for each user, rather than just an account for the
>>> POP3/SMTP server. I haven't enabled TLS, I'd like to get things at
>>> least working again before I complicate things. Right now, no one is
>>> able to authenticate, so no one can send or receive email... Does the
>>> encrypted password file stuff work?
>>
>> OK, the "encrypted file" thing - that's for the POP3 server *only* (as
>> far as I remember - I'll look into this for you). It's not something that
>> users can use to authenticate to the SMTP service to relay mail. To use
>> the "allow computers who authenticate to relay" option (again, as far as
>> I can remember - I could be wrong here), the user will need a Windows
>> account, and use that username/password to authenticate to the SMTP
>> server. If you enable Basic Auth here, then you should consider using TLS
>> to ensure that the credentials are encrypted between user and server.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Ken
>
>

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