RE: Email Setup... MX record ? A record ?

Hi,

Thanks for posting here.

From your post, I understand that you want to know how to configure
Exchange Server to send/receive email. If I am off base, please feel free
to let me know.

Based on my knowledge, you can use ISP''s mailserver as a smarthost for
your Exchange server. To do so, please follow the process below:

Step1. Check the Internet Message Format:
1. Go to Exchange System Manager (ESM).
2. Select Global Settings->Internet Message Format.
3. Check if there is an entry which has the * (asterisk) mark. If not,
please right-click Internet Mail Formats, click New, and then click Domain.
Type the name of your choice in the Name box. Enter * (asterisk) and then
click OK.

Step2. Check SMTP Connector:
1. Open ESM. Go to Administrative Groups->first administrative
group->Routing Groups->first routing group->Connectors.
2. Check if there is an SMTP Connector under Connectors. If not, please
right-click Connectors and then click New to create a new SMTP connector.
If there is already an SMTP connector, please right-click it and then click
Properties.
3. On the General tab, type the name of your choice in the Name box and
then select Forward all mails through this connector to the following smart
hosts.
4. Type in the address of the ISP''s SMTP server. NOTE: If you are going to
type in the IP address, please include the IP address between [ and ]. For
example, [192.168.0.1]
5. Click Add and select your SMTP virtual server on this server.
6. On the Address Space tab, click Add to add the following entry:
Type: SMTP
Address: * (asterisk)
Cost: 1
7. On the Advanced tab, click Outbound security.
8. Click to select Basic Authentication and then click Modify.
9. Type in any account provided by your ISP and its password.
10. Click OK twice.
11. Restart SMTP service and Microsoft Exchange Routing Enging service.

After that, you would be able to send messages out via your Exchange
account to both Internet addresses and internal addresses.

However, as your primary address of your internal account could be
user@xxxxxxxxxxxx, when any Internet recipients tried to reply to your
messages, they may receive an NDR message similar to the first NDR you
included. We can follow the steps below to change the primary address to be
the address of your ISP''s mailbox so that when any Internet recipients
tried to reply to your messages, the reply messages will go to your mailbox
on your ISP''s server.

1. Open Active Directory Users and Computer (ADUC).
2. Locate your account. Right-click it and then click Properties.
3. On the E-mail addresses tab, click to clear the box "Automatically
update e-mail address based on recipient policy".
4. Click New to create a new SMTP address that same with the e-mail address
provided by your ISP.
5. Select the newly-created address and then click Set as Primay.
6. Click OK.
7. Log off and log on your Outlook client.
8. After that, when you send messages to an Internet recipient via your
Exchange account, the messages should be delivered. When the recipient
tries to reply, the reply message would go to your mailbox on your ISP''s
server.
9. You can follow the steps below to change each user that need to send
messages to the Internet recipients.

Hope this helps!

Have a nice day.

Best Regards,

Steven Zhu
MCSE
Microsoft Online Partner Support
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