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How do i configure Exchange Server 2007 to send internal and external emails at the same time


Hi,

I have a windows 2003-2008 mixed domain with exchange 2007 enterprise edition installed on a windows 2008 member server. all our domain computer have outlook 2003 or outlook 2007 installed and configured with both external pop & smtp server ip addresses to send and receive emails from the internet.

Lets say that my registered external domain account name is @mydomain.com and also my internal domain name is mydomain.com so they both are the same.

What i want is to enable domain users to send emails internally , that is for example if a domain users sends an email with huge attachment  to another domain user from the same office or LAN it gets delivered using the internal connection to the exhcnage 2007 server and not through the internet , also they should still be able to send and receive emails to the internet .

How is it possible to do that without having to create a seperate profile for each account , thanks in advanced.
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Why do you have both Exchange accounts and POP3 configured in Outlook? Is your Exchange server not responsible for email delivery?

If you routed all email through Exchange (which is how it is designed to work) with no POP3 accounts in Outlook at all, then internal email would stay internal. The only email that would be sent to the internet is external recipients.

It sounds like either your Outlook clients aren't configured correctly, Exchange isn't configured correctly or you are simply not using Exchange as it was designed.

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yes i installed exchange 2007 just recently  for the purpose of internal email communication between employees and not to use it with the internet. the reason is that email mesages dont have to be downloaded to the exchange server , and in case it went down or we stoped using it people would still send and receive emailss using the external email hosting service.
 
now since my domain name is exactly the same as the registerd email  @mydomain.com i want as i said to have internal communication with people who have emails in the @mydoamin.com while working @ the office

i already have an email with this address user@mydomain.com
im thinking to create a user in active directory or exchange 2007 and assign it the same email address user@mydomain.com.

in outlook i will add a 2nd email(exchange email not pop3)  to the same profile and then both will appear.
 
does this sound like a solution ?
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Thanx for you both but

Mestha: i think you are right , i should just use the whole exchange services to send and receive emails.
Labsy:i think your suggestion may work but it needs testing , mabe i will test it if i can sometime.

Cheers.