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Home Office Client not receiving mail from internal clients

Hi There,
This is Windows SBS 2003 Exchange Server I am speaking of, but thought it is a pure exchange issue not really an SBS, please ask me to move it if neccc

I have an office of 7 people, two of which work from home offices.  They are not recieving mail sent to them from the internal clients.

They have network logins and exchange emails, but never connect to the network.

Our website is hosted by LDMI, as is the email.

Each user has a pop email setup on thier system, including the home users. Everyone gets and sends emails to others no problem save the above.

In active directory Users and Computers, I tried taking out the local address for the home users, so that just thier external smtp address was left, and it was made primary.  This made no difference...

Wondering if I should just delete thier local accounts and would that solve the issue.  Neither needs to really logon at the office, at least not with email capability.

I do not have the pop connector enabled.

Please help, I could really use to solve this by tomorrow.

Dave
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Hi knowseeker,

The problem is going to be that you are trying to send mail OUT that the server knows it is responsible for.

Ideally, you should stop having your mail hosted externally, ditch the horrible pop3 connector, start receiving email directly, and have your remote users on RPC/HTTP

At the very least, getting your remote users on RPC/HTTP would resolve your issue

http://www.amset.info/exchange/rpc-http.asp

Hope that helps,

-red
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Actually, I'm not using the pop3 connector.   I realize that that the server thinks it should keep the email, just seems like I should be able to tell it no....

_ Would deleting thier user accounts be the quick way to resolve the issue?_

would like to stop having email hosted externally, but like the idea if thier server goes down, email is still stored somewhere until it comes back up...  

will look at the URL you provided, thanks, and please respond to the above if possible.  Ok, I looked at that, and it sounds like the ideal scenario.  The problem is, I need a solution I can implement in an hour, and that is not the case there.  Both outside users are used to being outside, and they can stay that way for now.  I can see that this would allow them full network access, and is the best solution, but it needs  to wait for now...

Yours,
Dave
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Here is a way to have 2 servers responsible for the domain (which would fix your issue, but look how much messing around it is)

http://www.amset.info/exchange/twositesonedomain.asp

RPC/HTTP is your best option - if you have OWA working already, you are half way there.  If you have a purchased SSL certificate already installed on the server, you have done the hard part.

-red