RE: Very new to SBS - can I send emails without involving ISP?
- From: BillNewbie <BillNewbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:16:00 -0700
OK, I've now realised that the 'Undeliverable' was for my previous attempt,
before I tried sending mail via DNS.
The DNS option seems to be working, although it's extremely slow - only one
of 3 emails I've sent has actually been received.
This is a very helpful forum - I've a feeling that I may be back!!
Thanks very much,
Bill
"BillNewbie" wrote:
Thanks for the prompt reply..
I did as you suggested, and now I am getting 'Undeliverable' in my Outlook
inbox.
The message seems to be saying that the sender email address has the .local
suffix, which I think may be causing the problem.
What can I do about that?
Regards, Bill
"gbchriste" wrote:
The MX record is for delivering mail to you, not for you sending mail out.
If you wanted to get away from downloading POP3 from your ISP and have email
delivered straight to your SBS Exchange server, your domain name record has
to have an MX record associated with it. The MX record is what email senders
look up to find the IP address of your inbound SMTP server so they can
connect to it and deliver the mail. Much better than POP3 download in most
instances. Whoever is holding/managing your domain name record can assist
you with updating your MX record. Right now it's most likely pointing to
your ISP's mail server, where they hold the mail until your POP3 connector
comes in to pull it down.
As far as sending mail, does your ISP outbound mail server require
authentication to connect to it? If so, you have to set that up on your
outbound SMTP connection properties.
But rather than do an SMTP relay through BT, when not deliver mail via DNS?
In that case, you are not using BT's mail server at all. For each mail
message you send, your Exchange server will look up the recipients MX record
from the global DNS, get the IP address of their inbound mail server, and
connect directly to it to deliver the message. The only ISP service you need
in that case is the physical connection to the Internet. Otherwise they are
out of the loop.
Run the Internet Connection Wizard again, look for the DNS delivery option
on the Exchange portion of the wizards, select that, and then see what
happens when you send mail.
"BillNewbie" wrote:
The ISP is BT (UK) who are not very helpful.
The company which has just installed SBS has a domain name, website and pop3
inbound email hosted by another party.
Before installing SBS, outbound email was sent via BT's mail server.
In the Connect to Internet Wizard, I set Email Delivery Method to BT mail
server, Email Retrieval Method to Microsoft Connector for POP3, Email Domain
Name to our company's domain name.
Email is being received OK, but not sent.
I saw something about an MX record needing to be set up. Who would need to
do this, the ISP or the domain hosting people?
How can I trace what is happening to the email which is shown in the Sent
Items folder in Outlook?
I would be grateful for any assistance!
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