Exchange 2003

ruffneck · 25 Apr 2006 at 12:16

got a little problem and Im sure Im being stupid.

we use exchange to handle our internal mail, all the staff basicly have pop3 boxes (ourdomain.co.uk) but the server will forward email sent to these locations internally...not a problem BUT

now we have another guy in a different building not on the server also with a pop3 box

everytime people on the server try to send mail to him, it fails instantly obviously becasue its trying to locate him internally

how do we fix this ta

**edit** was being stupid, now using pop3 account to send mail to the other building

csmager · 25 Apr 2006 at 12:34

The problem you had is that the Exchange server believes it is responsible for the external domain, so it isn't going to bother routing mail anywhere else.

What you really should be doing is using the Exchange server to handle all email for the domain - i.e. have an SMTP feed. If people need to access their mail elsewhere, then OWA or Outlook using RPC over HTTP are both pretty good.

crashuk · 25 Apr 2006 at 15:19

http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/ms_exchange_server_2000/

ruffneck · 25 Apr 2006 at 15:47

well normally we would have exchange handling the whole domain, but they have multiple domains, with different people in the organisation requiring different email addresses @ different domains

csmager · 25 Apr 2006 at 17:03

ruffneck said:
well normally we would have exchange handling the whole domain, but they have multiple domains, with different people in the organisation requiring different email addresses @ different domains

It could still be done, I suppose... but it would involve getting feeds for all domain names, so it might be a hassle.

ruffneck · 25 Apr 2006 at 21:49

yea...too much hassle

a1ex2001 · 26 Apr 2006 at 14:10

The nightmare that is echange! I'm just starting the planning for a 5.5 too 2k3 migration at work! Hopefully it will be as smooth as the AD role out!