Re: Exchange set up newbie

From: Frank McCallister (anonymous)
Date: 07/03/04 

Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 19:26:24 -0500

Hi Phil

The person responsible for setting the A and MX record is the Domain Host
not the Mail host. If you do not know who is hosting your Domain, do a whois
search http://www.internic.net/whois.html and then you can get the registrar
to either change it or give you login and password to change it yourself
(preferred).

Before you choose DNS be sure you can Telnet out on Port 25 from command
prompt to a mail server outside your ISP. If you are not using Bellsouth you
could type
Telnet mail.bellsouth.net 25 and be sure you get a connect. Some ISPs are
now blocking Port 25 in which case you will need to use Smarthost for
outbound mail.

Frank McCallister
COMPUMAC
"Phil" <psharp@mcscredit.com> wrote in message
news:%236sOK7GYEHA.3120@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> My ISP is seperate from the company that is currently hosting our mail and
> website. So I'm assuming I would contact the company that is hosting our
> mail and website since they are the ones that are probably currently
> maintaining the A and MX records for our public domain and mail domains.
> And they would probably be able to forward any mail received during the
> time
> it takes for the changes to the A and MX records to propogated throughout
> the net. Am I correct in my assumptions? Also, can any ISP/hosting
> company
> update A and MX records? The reason I ask this is that if we were to ever
> discontinue using this hosting company I wouldn't want to get stuck and
> not
> be able to update this records again should the need arise. (Which
> shouldn't
> be any time in the near future. We just recently switched ISPs.)
>
> Thanks again,
> Phil
>
> "Andy Nestor" <Andrew.Nestor@AmbTechAdvisors.com> wrote in message
> news:eYNsX4EYEHA.2388@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>> Here goes...
>>
>> First get Exchange installed (Doh!).
>>
>> Run the CEICW wizard. When asked how to configure the delivery of email,
>> select DNS. I believe this is the default option. The CEICW will
>> automatically configure ISA to allow inbound SMTP traffic to the server
> for
>> Exchange to use.
>>
>> Contact the person who is managing DNS for your public domain (the domain
>> that you want to receive internet email on). You need to have an "A"
> record
>> created that has the name (whatever you want it to be; i.e.
> mail.domain.com)
>> and the public IP address for your server. Then you need to add an "MX"
>> record that points to the name of the "A" record created above. Any and
> all
>> other MX records should be deleted. The MX record designates the name of
>> the mail exchang host for the domain and the A record provides the IP
>> address of that named host.
>>
>> Once the DNS changes propagate throughout the Internet's DNS system
>> (approximately 48 to 72 hours), all further email will be delivered to
> your
>> Exchange server. In the meantime, some email will continue to be
> delivered
>> to the hosted mail server. You will need to be able to pick that up in
> some
>> manner. I will leave that to another thread.
>>
>> Andy Nestor
>>
>>
>> "Phil" <psharp@mcscredit.com> wrote in message
>> news:OW14acEYEHA.3308@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> > Hey guys,
>> >
>> > With my install of SBS2003 this will be my first implementation of
>> Exchange.
>> > We currently have a 3rd party host our email and we pick it up with
>> Outlook
>> > through POP3. I would like to take full advantage of everything
>> > SBS2003
>> > (Premium) has to offer, especially with Exchange. So I'd like to move
>> > everything off of the hosted mail and move everything toward hosting
>> > our
>> > mail inhouse with Exchange. And when I say this I mean through SMTP
>> > and
>> not
>> > by using the POP3 connector.
>> >
>> > So finally here is my question, what all will I need to do to make sure
>> that
>> > we can move everything over without a hitch? Can someone offer a
>> > "checklist" or some guidance as to what needs to be done? Are there
>> > any
>> > problems I might run into that I need to be aware of?
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance,
>> > Phil
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>

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