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Accessing Microsoft Exchange mail through wingate
How do you set up wingate to allow access to an external exchange server, or is there any way to access exchange mail though the pop3 protocol by setting up a mapping in wingate. Clarification> The exchange server is not through a firewall as I am within the firewall (dial into it using remote access). The problem is not connecting to the exchange server (I can do that on the wingate machine) the problem is that the machines on my network at home do not seem to be able to talk to the exchange server. What i need to know is how to set up the wingate machine to point to the exchange server so that I can point my lan machines at my wingate machine which will then point to the exchange server. (complicated aye). It seems possible with other protocols such as ICQ (map wingate to mirabilis servers on udp port 4000) and news servers etc etc, but I can't figure out how to do it using exchange.
I know for sure that u can access exchange through a pop3 client by using Internet mail connector on the exchange server, but way do you want to use wingate?
Can't you set an MX record for exchange in wingate? That should allow for operation between the two.
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I am on a LAN at home and run wingate so all my machines have internet acces, thats why I use wingate, I need to access my exchange mail which is at work through one of the machines. At this stage I have tried setting up tcp/ip mappings to the exchange server but these have all failed. it seems that exchange uses either a funny protocol or a port that is specific to exchange. Hope this clarifies the situation.
can you access the exchange server from the machine that dials onto the net..... ?
if not there is probably a firewall keeping you from getting the email
if not there is probably a firewall keeping you from getting the email
Let me get this straight,
1- u want 2 access your co's exchange server from home.
2- can u ping the exchange server from your machines? If not, then then the server is behind a Firewall, so u have to access it from a point behind the firewall.
3- How r u connecting 2 u'r office?
4- From the connection point try 2 ping the exchange server.
. ... pls clarify
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1- u want 2 access your co's exchange server from home.
2- can u ping the exchange server from your machines? If not, then then the server is behind a Firewall, so u have to access it from a point behind the firewall.
3- How r u connecting 2 u'r office?
4- From the connection point try 2 ping the exchange server.
. ... pls clarify
trd
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Hi
I appear to have solved the problem in a roundabout way.
I am unfortunately unable to connect to RAS server due to incompatibility with modem.
To solve it I have done the following,
1) Connect to external ISP
2) written a logon script that connects directly to the firewall and then maps connection to exchange server.
3) setup tcp mapping to firewall (and thus exchange server in wingate)
4) works slow but it works.
As I can't close the question I will award the points to mcdonc as he provided a very concise alternative.
Cheers all.
I appear to have solved the problem in a roundabout way.
I am unfortunately unable to connect to RAS server due to incompatibility with modem.
To solve it I have done the following,
1) Connect to external ISP
2) written a logon script that connects directly to the firewall and then maps connection to exchange server.
3) setup tcp mapping to firewall (and thus exchange server in wingate)
4) works slow but it works.
As I can't close the question I will award the points to mcdonc as he provided a very concise alternative.
Cheers all.