savetheorcas
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Use different account (POP) to send emails
I am using the exchange server that is included with Microsoft Small Business Server. I have a domain name that is just for the server and all users have their own email address (both local and internet email addressed - .local & .com). We also have a website that is hosted on a third party hosting server and email from this domain is retrived by our server with the POP Connector. I am receiving the email from my other server fine, but I would like to be able to send emails using my organizations domain name.
For the sake of this question, lets assume that the servers domain name is domain1.com and our website domain name (hosted by a hosting company) is domain2.org. All email sent to my domain2.org is retrieved by the small business server and put into my domain.com inbox. The problem is that when I want to send a new email or reply to an email sent to my domain2.org account, I have to use my domain1.com email - so the email looks like it's coming from domain1.com, which is in fact the case.
I want to set things up so that I can choose to send new messages and replies from either my servers domain (domain1.com) or my organizations domain name (domain2.org). I can't seem to figure out how to do this.
Is this possible, and if so, how would I set this up?
For the sake of this question, lets assume that the servers domain name is domain1.com and our website domain name (hosted by a hosting company) is domain2.org. All email sent to my domain2.org is retrieved by the small business server and put into my domain.com inbox. The problem is that when I want to send a new email or reply to an email sent to my domain2.org account, I have to use my domain1.com email - so the email looks like it's coming from domain1.com, which is in fact the case.
I want to set things up so that I can choose to send new messages and replies from either my servers domain (domain1.com) or my organizations domain name (domain2.org). I can't seem to figure out how to do this.
Is this possible, and if so, how would I set this up?
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Hi savetheorcas,
Is there a reason you do not receive domain2.org directly on your Exchange server?
If not, you could move it there and then use a program called "choosefrom" which will let you choose a different alias.
Of course, you could do it with POP3 accounts as above, but you would need to ensure that you can relay for that domain (through whatever server you are sending)
What is it that you are trying to do exactly?
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Is there a reason you do not receive domain2.org directly on your Exchange server?
If not, you could move it there and then use a program called "choosefrom" which will let you choose a different alias.
Of course, you could do it with POP3 accounts as above, but you would need to ensure that you can relay for that domain (through whatever server you are sending)
What is it that you are trying to do exactly?
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savetheorcas,
If you want it to work with OWA, you can forget about using POP3 accounts.
Use choosefrom, and choosefromOWA
http://www.ivasoft.biz/choosefrom.html (for outlook)
http://www.ivasoft.biz/choosefromowa.html (for OWA)
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If you want it to work with OWA, you can forget about using POP3 accounts.
Use choosefrom, and choosefromOWA
http://www.ivasoft.biz/choosefrom.html (for outlook)
http://www.ivasoft.biz/choosefromowa.html (for OWA)
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Red,
The reason that we don't (or can't) have domain2.org on the exchange server is because the domain2.org is hosted by a hosting company and is the domain our main website is on. We only use Small Business Server for our office. As far as I know, there isn't a way to have email for a domain hosted on a server other than where it is hosted.
I've looked at the links you sent, but I'm not sure that I fully understand what it all does.I'll play with it a bit and see if I can figure it out.
Thanks
Sean
The reason that we don't (or can't) have domain2.org on the exchange server is because the domain2.org is hosted by a hosting company and is the domain our main website is on. We only use Small Business Server for our office. As far as I know, there isn't a way to have email for a domain hosted on a server other than where it is hosted.
I've looked at the links you sent, but I'm not sure that I fully understand what it all does.I'll play with it a bit and see if I can figure it out.
Thanks
Sean
>>As far as I know, there isn't a way to have email for a domain hosted on a server other than where it is hosted.
Yes, there is. I assume you mean, can a website be hosted somewhere and the mail hosted somewhere else entirely.
Although, that is not totally necessary for what I suggested above.
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Yes, there is. I assume you mean, can a website be hosted somewhere and the mail hosted somewhere else entirely.
Although, that is not totally necessary for what I suggested above.
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Red,
How would I go about using exchange for my POP account (obviously it wouldn't be a POP account anymore, but you get what I'm saying). Our main website is hosted at a regular hosting company, so I would assume I would need to do some edits to the MX record on the server - or perhaps this would be done at the domain registration company?.
The other issue is that we use Comcast Cable for our internet, so the server has a dynamic IP. To get our servers domain to work with the dynamic IP, we use the services of dyndns.org (we also use their mailhop service). So, does this complicate things at all?
I think having email handled by our exchange server would be the best option, though it still sounds like we would need something else in order to select this account from outlook web?
How would I go about using exchange for my POP account (obviously it wouldn't be a POP account anymore, but you get what I'm saying). Our main website is hosted at a regular hosting company, so I would assume I would need to do some edits to the MX record on the server - or perhaps this would be done at the domain registration company?.
The other issue is that we use Comcast Cable for our internet, so the server has a dynamic IP. To get our servers domain to work with the dynamic IP, we use the services of dyndns.org (we also use their mailhop service). So, does this complicate things at all?
I think having email handled by our exchange server would be the best option, though it still sounds like we would need something else in order to select this account from outlook web?
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Well, comcast doesn't offer static IP addresses, we've asked, so it's not looking like that is going to work. I'll look at the link and see if I can figure things out a bit.
Perhaps another option would be to add a second domain to our small business sever and I could use that for email. It wouldn't be the same as our internet doman, which is a .com, but I could lways use the .net for email. Can a second domain name be added to SBS and if so, can you point me to a good guide/doc. I've looked at this before but never found anything that explained how to do it - I remember going into the DNS snapin but not really understanding what needed to be done.
Thanks.
Perhaps another option would be to add a second domain to our small business sever and I could use that for email. It wouldn't be the same as our internet doman, which is a .com, but I could lways use the .net for email. Can a second domain name be added to SBS and if so, can you point me to a good guide/doc. I've looked at this before but never found anything that explained how to do it - I remember going into the DNS snapin but not really understanding what needed to be done.
Thanks.
Or, change ISPs.
Anywhere that doesn't offer static IPs usually isn't offering great service. Are you sure they don't have a business plan or something?
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Anywhere that doesn't offer static IPs usually isn't offering great service. Are you sure they don't have a business plan or something?
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my exchange hosts 6 domains ... so far looked good ... but u need to redirect the MX record to your exchange in order to achieve that
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