Both Exchange delivered directly and Pop3 connector
Hi! Is it possible for me to use pop3 connector and hav exchange delivered mail directly?
I use pop3 connector today and have smtp/pop3 ports (inbound) closed on the firewall. Our ISP has offer us to point a first MX record to our static (public) ip and use thier own as second. Therefore all mails will be delivered to them, if our server is down in any reason.
I want to have pop3 connector still downloading mails from there pop3 accounts even though mail going directly to our Exchange Server. This would work like a fail over. If our system (or Internetline) is going down, then our ISP's mailserver is picking up the mail, for our POP3 connector to download instead.
Is this possible? Can I on any way try to e-mail our Exchangeserver directly and get that mail delivered to corresponding mailbox without stopping anything who works today? Like e-mailen name.name@ourpublicipadres
I use pop3 connector today and have smtp/pop3 ports (inbound) closed on the firewall. Our ISP has offer us to point a first MX record to our static (public) ip and use thier own as second. Therefore all mails will be delivered to them, if our server is down in any reason.
I want to have pop3 connector still downloading mails from there pop3 accounts even though mail going directly to our Exchange Server. This would work like a fail over. If our system (or Internetline) is going down, then our ISP's mailserver is picking up the mail, for our POP3 connector to download instead.
Is this possible? Can I on any way try to e-mail our Exchangeserver directly and get that mail delivered to corresponding mailbox without stopping anything who works today? Like e-mailen name.name@ourpublicipadres
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You cannot email to an IP address, that won't work.
You can test your SMTP service by following this KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/153119
Then, you can check your MX record resolution by using www.mxtoolbox.com
Jeff
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You can test your SMTP service by following this KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/153119
Then, you can check your MX record resolution by using www.mxtoolbox.com
Jeff
TechSoEasy
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As I thought, but it beter to ask to be sure. It's often gives some nice extra info to think about - and of course always nice to speak :-). Is there a way to try that the connection to SMTP is working from outside, without first changing the mx record? Like e-mailing mailboxname@ipnumber? I've tried THAT but got a "cannot route to that mailbox" as return answer. Of course, our Exchange are configured to handle the single domain "company.com". I've tried to telnet port 25, it's fine so far.