Newbie Question 1

[XofCDe3rd]

hello

a small company i am working for wants to install exchange 2000 to handle email.

at the moment the RQDN is hosted on an ISP as with the email addresses of current employees. in other words they wish to have the mail server on site and have it pass the mail to our isp.

a win2k member server has been been set up with exchange on it. Can anyone help?

I have read some articles on the internet and they seem pretty straight foward, but I think I need a little guidance from someone who has actually set it up coz reading and doing are two totally different issues

exchange newbie

 

[Goner05]

You could keep your ISP as the RQDN and just set up a pop3 connetor to get the mail from your ISP. Then a SMTP connector to send mail through your ISP provider.

If you want the mail to come direct without a pop3 you can have your ISP set up a mail forwarding (they keep the RQDN) or you can have the DNS records changed (by your ISP) to point directly to your server.

Couple of options. It sounds like each individual is poping into the ISP to get their mail now so the first option would be pretty easy to set up. Also should your server go down all mail would be held at the ISP instead until your back up and running.

Food for thought

Goner05

 

[XofCDe3rd]

ta 4 your help......

 

[Phizzle]

Do you have a static IP address from you ISP?

 

[XofCDe3rd]

yep yep we do.....we just transfered the n email mailboxes down from isp.....the last postin helped out real gud ta................

 

[Phizzle]

Since you have a static, all you need to do is have your ISP to setup a MX record to point email directly to you. You then setup an SMTP connector on exchange...no more POP3 and no mailboxes w/ your ISP. At least that seems the easiest to me.

 

[cyberspace]

Phizzle's suggestion I think is very sensible, that is the way in which mail is handled at the firm I work for.

Also means that if you ever change ISP, the only thing that you need to do is instruct your domain registar to alter the MX record to point to the new address, which causes very little disruption to mail services.