Re: Route Internal E-mail Address to POP Server
- From: "Charles Lavin" <x@xxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 11:09:47 -0400
Hi again --
I just noticed that you mentioned forwarding the email to "his ISP's
external mailbox" (I had missed the "ISP" part <g>). So that would work, as
long as the outside server is modified as well ...
CL
"Charles Lavin" <x@xxx> wrote in message
news:%23Dus3QATFHA.3056@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi --
>
> I had thought about that solution last night, but that will not work (at
> least not as described).
>
> I think I understand his setup; I have similar setups.
>
> David has an external POP server somewhere that picks up email for
> mydomain.com.
>
> His SBS server is set up, say, as mydomain.local but his Exchange server
> responds to email sent to mydomain.com, even though it does not receive
> email directly from outside.
>
> His Exchange server retrieves all email from the outside server via the
> POP Connector and redistributes it to the internal accounts.
>
> Under this setup, if I were to send an email to david@xxxxxxxxxxxx, the
> email would be delivered to his outside server, then brought in by
> Exchange on the next pickup. But any email sent by his colleague
> nancy@xxxxxxxxxxxx from inside the SBS domain would just be redirected to
> David's Exchange mailbox without ever leaving the LAN.
>
> Now David has a colleague, Bruce, who's working outside the office all the
> time. Bruce has an email address bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Bruce is directly picking up his email from the outside POP server, so his
> outside mailbox is excluded from the Exchange POP retrieval cycle. If I
> send an email to bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxx, that email will park itself in the
> outside mail server until Bruce retrieves it directly (via Outlook,
> Eudora, or whatever).
>
> However, if Nancy tries to send Bruce an email to bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxx from
> inside the SBS LAN, that email will never leave because Exchange will
> assume it's for an inside user, and will drop it into Bruce's Exchange
> mailbox (to which Bruce no longer has access).
>
> The last three times I've run into this problem, I've solved it like this:
>
> 1) I set up SBS and Exchange to allow my outside user to retrieve his mail
> via POP. So instead of POP'ping the external server, he simply POP'ped the
> SBS/Exchange box.
>
> 2) On another occasion, the user simply connected to his Exchange mailbox
> via OWA.
>
> 3) When direct connection to the SBS server wasn't feasible (which I think
> is the problem here), this is how we got around the problem:
>
> a) I set up the outside server to forward incoming email for
> bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxx to Bruce's ISP's mailbox (i.e. bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx).
>
> b) On the SBS box, I made Bruce a mail-enabled Contact (as described in
> the previous post) with the email address bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> This way, if an outsider sends mail to bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxx, it will get
> bounced to bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx And if an insider sends mail to
> bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxx (or bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx), it too will get bounced to
> bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> It isn't the most elegant of solutions, but it served its purpose at the
> time.
>
> There is a more convoluted way of doing this that involves changing DNS MX
> records, so that Exchange can forward email to bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> This may require you to have control of the outside server's DNS records.
>
> However, I would really like to know how if there is a cleaner, "more
> proper" way to do what David is asking, i.e. "this email address isn't
> _really_ internal -- forward it to the outside server (without changing
> the email address)."
>
> HTH
> CL
>
> "Crina Li (MSFT)" <v-crinal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:NG6MKw%23SFHA.3928@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> Thank you for posting in SBS newsgroup.
>>
>> I understand that you want to forward all emails sent to the user's
>> mailbox
>> to his ISP's external mailbox. You can do it as following:
>>
>> 1. Go to Active Directory Users and Computers | Server name |
>> MyBusiness | Users | SBSUsers.
>> 2. In blank place of the right pane, right-click and select New and
>> select Contact.
>> 3. Please input the name and then click Next.
>> 4. Click Modify and then select SMTP Address.
>> 5. Click OK.
>> 6. Input the user's external E-mail address and then click OK.
>> 7. .Click Next and Finish.
>> 8. Right-click the user whose mailbox you want to configure and
>> select
>> Properties.
>> 9. In Exchange General Tab, click Delivery Options.
>> 10. Click Forward to and Modify.
>> 11. Input the contact name you have created in above steps and click OK.
>> 12. Click OK twice.
>>
>> After performing the above steps, please let me know the result.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Crina Li (MSFT)
>>
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>> | Thread-Topic: Route Internal E-mail Address to POP Server
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>> | From: "=?Utf-8?B?RGF2aWQ=?=" <David@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> | Subject: Route Internal E-mail Address to POP Server
>> | Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:49:54 -0700
>> | | Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs
>> || All
>> |
>> | I have a user who worked for our organisation however now does as an
>> | external consultant for the organisation. We do not want to setup VPN
>> | access, as all he needs is access to his e-mail. Hence we want all
>> sent
>> | to john.doe@xxxxxxx to be sent to a POP mailbox of our Web Provider.
>> |
>> | I have removed his e-mail from the POP3 connector so that any external
>> | e-mail remains on the POP server of our Web Provider allowing him to
>> download
>> | the e-mail using his e-mail client. However what I can not figure out
>> is
>> how
>> | to route any internal e-mail sent from mary.jane@xxxxxxx to
>> john.doe@xxxxxxx
>> | to the POP server, as all e-mails sent internally to of
>> john.doe@xxxxxxx
>> are
>> | being delivered to the exchange mailbox of john.doe@xxxxxxx as apposed
>> to
>> the
>> | POP server of the Web Provider.
>> |
>> | How do I configure john.doe@xxxxxxx to be routed to an external POP
>> server
>> | as apposed to an internal exchange mailbox.
>> |
>> | Thanks in Advance for any assistance
>> |
>> |
>>
>
>
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