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Exchange 2010 Incoming Email

Hi All,

My knowledge of exchange is limited.

I have just installed exchange 2010 in our organization on a completed different domain.
It is sitting on a active directory server with DNS enabled.

We have a parallel mail server which is in production (Sitting on a unix platform)
All our prod DNS servers are also sitting on Unix machines.

This server will slowly be tested over time.

So I have created some "receive" connectors in the hub transport roll.

I have configured SMTP so that this server uses our main "UNIX mail" server to route email.

Now when I send email using owa, the email goes through.

However, how can I configure incoming email?

If anyone can point me in the right direction that would be great.

I know it has something to do with MX records but don't have a lot of details on this.

thanks,

Antonio Vargas

Like you said it's all about MX records. If its a different domain you have to configure your MX records for that domain to go to exchange 2010. If they go directly from the Internet to exchange, all you have to do is point your MX records for one public IP you have, and on what does contain that public ip (Router/ISA server/mail relay appliance...whatever) you should point the 25 traffic to your exchange.

note that also, on your exchange, you should configure your receive connectors. If it receives mail from Internet or from a mail relay appliance you should configure the receive connector to "anonymous" relay. and also for security you should limit the ips or ip ranges that can deliver mail there

Rick Fee

Is your plan to have internet email hit your Unix Mail then relay the mail over the the Exchange 2010 box? Or do you plan to have exchange accept internet email directly?

wbokhary

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EndureKona:
@can you explain the procedure for both.
My thinking is that Unix Mail would possibly the one sending emails to this box (however, since we are rolling this out to 4 - 5 users initially; I think we might have emails directly coming to this box as well)
Please explain the situation 4 both.
Thank you.

Rick Fee

To not change the MX record you will have external email come in to the UNIX mail and for accounts that unix mail does not have forward to Exchange. Have Exchange send out to unix mail so it will relay out. You will need to do this anyway for inner office email between the mailboxes that are on Unix and Exchange.

Second for method....directly just setup a NAT on your firewall for smtp to exchange and setup a MX record for this...but you will have to still setup communication between the two for inner office email

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wbokhary

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Great job.