Re: Migrating from POP3 connector to SMTP
- From: "Paul Hadfield" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 20:16:50 -0000
Thanks for this Dave.
The telnet advice was particularly useful. It turns out I had
miss-configured the DSL router!! Now corrected.
The boss doesn't want to make the change over just yet - I'll post back
when we do.
Cheers,
Paul.
"Dave Nickason [SBS MVP]" <gwdibble@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You probably don't have to do anything. From your desktop PC, open a cmd
prompt and type "telnet <your sbs ip> 25" without the quotes - the IP
address is followed by a space then 25, as in "telnet 10.0.0.2 25". You
should get a response from Exchange like "220 mail.yourdomain.com
Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 6.0.3790.1830 ready at Tue, 31 Oct
2006 18:20:59 -0500." Type "quit" to get out of telnet.
If that works, go home (it's time anyway, right?). See if you can do the
same thing from home. If you can, your server is configured properly. If
at either point you can't telnet and get the appropriate response from
Exchange, try re-running the CEICW or post back.
Once you can successfully contact Exchange this way, you can go ahead and
change the MX record. I recommend leaving the POP connector alone for a
few days until you're comfortable that all the DNS records have been
updated and there's no more mail going to the POP mailboxes (I did change
mine from every 15 to every hour).
I recommend enabling recipient filtering so that your server will not
accept mail to non-existent users (see Exchange Help or post back if you
don't know how to do it). Also, remember that if your users' e-mail
addresses are not appropriate for your new configuration, you'll need to
sort that. Again, post back if you have questions.
"Paul Hadfield" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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All,
We have a single SBS 2003 server. We have been using the POP3 connector
to download mail ever since the server was installed. We'd now like to
move to SMTP for incoming mail.
We use DSL for Internet and have forwarded port 25 from the DSL router to
our SBS server. We haven't yet modified the MX record of our domain name
to point to our DSL IP address - we want to do this once we're 100%
certain everything else is in place as doing so will prevent the external
POP3 server from receiving mail.
All we need to do now is configure Exchange on the SBS box to accept
incoming mail from SMTP - what steps do we need to take to do this -
remembering that this server has never used SMTP except for sending
outgoing mail?
Many thanks,
Paul.
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