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Exchange Server 2003 - Force to always send using DNS/Smart Host

Asked by tvacc in SBS Small Business Server, Exchange Email Server, Windows 2003 Server

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Here's my problem: we're in the middle of a migration of regular Outlook w/PST files to Exchange Server 2003(as part of SBS 2003). We're moving people over one by one and some people are out of the office and cannot be reached in the immediate future. When the people on exchange server send to people still using PST files (all using the same <@domainname.com>, they get recipient cannot be found errors. We're using the pop connector for now until everyone is moved over (at which points we're having the mail delivered directly to the server).

The following recipient(s) cannot be reached:
      <theuser>@<domainname>.com on 3/29/2008 11:22 AM
            The e-mail account does not exist at the organization this message was sent to.  Check the e-mail address, or contact the recipient directly to find out the correct address.
            <<domainname>.com #5.1.1>

Anyway, it's due to Exchange Server delivering mail within it's system without sending it out over the internet when it realizes it's the same domain. In the SBS 2003 connect to the internet wizard I had originally put <domainname.com> as the domain name when it asked what it is for their organization. I then thought if I left that line blank it would always send mail over the internet. That's not the case.

So anyway, how can I have exchange server always deliver using DNS/Smart Host instead of trying to deliver mail directly to mailboxes within the system?Start Free Trial
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