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SO you are saying I need to create an A record on the SBS server? If so, can you point me to docs on how to create the A record on sbs 2003? Thanks, Dean

Time-Warner says they make both a PTR and A Record. The MX is controlled from my webhost.

Techsoeasy, Yes I point the mx record which is held by my webhosting. I use cpanel and point the mx record to the PTR which would be email.clientdomain.com in this case. I understand that I have rerun the CEICW but my question is how to configure CEICW for exchange to pull and send email...

I am quite familiar with the wizards in SBS and I do not ways around many of the wizards. However, wizard way or not, I am still uncertain on what I need to change in the SBS 2003 server in order for it to retrieve the email now that I have PTR records setup by the host. Thanks, Dean

Sorry I meant to call you Blakely. Bare with me, I just got out of the hospital a week ago and am supposed to not be working for three weeks but I cant lose clients and I only have 10-99s for desktop support and occasional Citrix Guru as needed. Dean PS; I am glad I found this site. This is a...

blaely, Thank you for your replies. Yes there are SBS wizards but I spent 20 years in corporate IT for some of the largest companies in the US. I used to be the Banyan Guru, then the Netware/NDS Guru, then the Server 2000 Guru. I am know the Server 2003 except for it comes to the mx records...

I called Time-Warner and I am in good shape. I have the A-Record (Also the PTR) set to email.clientdomain.com. The web is still hosted on a third party site and will remain that way. I can change cpanel to point the mx record to email.clientdomain.com. The only part I am not clear on is...

I guess I am confused. I thought I only needed the PTR record pointing to the email.clienthost.com Dean

Hi All, I have a client that was using a broadband connection with a dynamic IP. They are running SBS 2003. I used a program called pop-beamer which would retrieve pop email every one minute. However, they are now set with a static ip via Time-Warner and I called tech support and had them...