Re: Best Practice to setup POP e-mail





In news:B1AAFDEF-ACE4-4B19-A0B2-E580A46393B7@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
IworkIworkIwork <IworkIworkIwork@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
> Thanks to all who leave input!
>
> Two Questions:
> What is the best practice for what I have, setup up wise?
>
> Any suggestions to troubleshooting my issues?
>
> Recently I have inherited a SBS2003 SP1 box.
> Yahoo is hosting the mail.

Best practice - ditch that. Host your own mail. Try posting in
m.p.windows.server.sbs for more help.
>
> Originally, they were setup to use the POP3 connector. However have
> run into a couple of problems with the default setup. With some
> domains they are getting bounce back from certain domains. 'I think'
> from the research I have done is that the problem is when the
> recipents mail server does a reverse DNS lookup that the
> mail.mydomain.com is coming back with a yahoo mail server name etc.

If the clients are using a POP account in their mail client, it could well
be.
I'd change from POP, as mentioned - and have your ISP set up a PTR for your
public IP (if static) or forward all outbound Internet mail to your ISP's
SMTP server as a smarthost.

>
> If there is any logs, etc that would help out please let me know and
> I will post this information ASAP.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tech In Need
> :(


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