wolfganghdde
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sending internal mail through external smtp
Hi together,
here is the situation:
Small Business Server 2003, Exchange 2003, E-Mail is retrieved through POPcon a connector that connects the e-mail boxes in the datacenter and then transmits these to exchange.
The Issue:
Since some internal users prefer to access their e-mail through the data-center postbox e-mails need to be received on both the exchange server and the data-center postbox
The Problem:
E-mails that come from an external domain i.e. extern.com work fine. Yet when a user of the company ben@mycompany.com sends an e-mail the e-mail is routed directly to the exchange server and not to the external smtp server.
What needs to be regarded:
I know that I could set up E-Mail forwarding, yet this would cause the user to have the e-mail twice in his postbox on exchange since the popconnector would retrieve the mail from the data-center again?
Thanks,
Wolfgang
here is the situation:
Small Business Server 2003, Exchange 2003, E-Mail is retrieved through POPcon a connector that connects the e-mail boxes in the datacenter and then transmits these to exchange.
The Issue:
Since some internal users prefer to access their e-mail through the data-center postbox e-mails need to be received on both the exchange server and the data-center postbox
The Problem:
E-mails that come from an external domain i.e. extern.com work fine. Yet when a user of the company ben@mycompany.com sends an e-mail the e-mail is routed directly to the exchange server and not to the external smtp server.
What needs to be regarded:
I know that I could set up E-Mail forwarding, yet this would cause the user to have the e-mail twice in his postbox on exchange since the popconnector would retrieve the mail from the data-center again?
Thanks,
Wolfgang
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Just because "some internal users prefer to access their e-mail through the data-center postbox e-mails" doesn't mean that you should allow that to happen. You now have an Exchange Server that provides users web access to not only their email but also their Calendar, Contacts, etc.
If users want webmail access have them use OWA which is installed by default on SBS and easily enabled via the Configure Email and Internet Connection Wizard (CEICW -- linked as "Connect to the Internet" in the Server Management Console's To-Do List).
Jeff
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