Exchange 2007 setup for newbies
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I have successfully installed exchange 2007 on to our sbs 2008 platform, and everything is running as it should internally. Whereas our exchange 2003 used to use a smarthost (and we would collect mail via pop connector), I want to bypass this additional step and send and receive email directly from the interent. Can someone please point me in the direction (or provide answers here) of step by step instructions on what settings need to be configured to allow exchange 2007 to send and receive email directly from the net. We have a fixed IP address, DSL connection held by a Cisco 2800 router, and a Smoothwall Firewall/gateway between our sbs2008 box and the Internet.
Your assistance is greatly appreciated.
I have successfully installed exchange 2007 on to our sbs 2008 platform, and everything is running as it should internally. Whereas our exchange 2003 used to use a smarthost (and we would collect mail via pop connector), I want to bypass this additional step and send and receive email directly from the interent. Can someone please point me in the direction (or provide answers here) of step by step instructions on what settings need to be configured to allow exchange 2007 to send and receive email directly from the net. We have a fixed IP address, DSL connection held by a Cisco 2800 router, and a Smoothwall Firewall/gateway between our sbs2008 box and the Internet.
Your assistance is greatly appreciated.
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We already use one that hosts our domain (website and email etc), and that is how we were set up with sbs 2003 box. You are suggesting that we use them, and just use some type of pop connector to pick up email from our domain host?
You would need to have your domain DNS hosting provider point the domain e-mail MX record to your RSP. Then all e-mail to your domain would pass through their servers being sanitized in the process. From there, the e-mail would travel directly to your SBS.
All outbound e-mail would also pass through the RSP, so you do not run into a blacklist that blocks you due to your IP being on a consumer level IP range.
Philip
All outbound e-mail would also pass through the RSP, so you do not run into a blacklist that blocks you due to your IP being on a consumer level IP range.
Philip
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What costs are associated with using an RSP?
btw ... this discussion has not addressed my question regarding how to set up exchange to facilitate sending and receiving of email ... irrespective of where it is being pointed to. Is this something you can assist with?
btw ... this discussion has not addressed my question regarding how to set up exchange to facilitate sending and receiving of email ... irrespective of where it is being pointed to. Is this something you can assist with?
If you have run the SBS 2008 wizards, Exchange is configured to send using the domain you selected.
You need to contact your DNS hosting provider to have an MX record to point e-mail to your SBS with the highest priority.
sbsmail.mysbsdomain.com DNS A 199.199.199.199
mysbsdomain.com MX 10 sbsmail.mysbsdomain.com
That is what the records would look like. The #10 is the priority number. So, the lower the number the higher the mail server's priority (inverse relationship).
Philip
You need to contact your DNS hosting provider to have an MX record to point e-mail to your SBS with the highest priority.
sbsmail.mysbsdomain.com DNS A 199.199.199.199
mysbsdomain.com MX 10 sbsmail.mysbsdomain.com
That is what the records would look like. The #10 is the priority number. So, the lower the number the higher the mail server's priority (inverse relationship).
Philip
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We are suggesting ONLY filtering NOT hosting. If your server goes down then the third party typically holds your email for 24 to 72 hours (great for single server enviros). You are still hosting your own email.
I never commented about your/other suggestions. :-) !! Nothing against anyone here hahaha !!
Cheers
Nitin
Cheers
Nitin
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Thanks for your joint input guys
No problem.....glad to help.
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we have one sbs box only ... and use smoothwall as our firewall/gateway. Smoothwall has the capability of acting as a pop3 proxy ... will this achieve a similar result as the RSP setup?
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Makes life really simple and eliminates any direct connect SMTP spam and malware.
If you want names, I can drop some.
Philip