sending emails internally and externally

[progman1010]

I have an Exchange 2003 server which downloads email from an external POP3 account. Most of my staff reside as Active Directory Users within the windows domain.

Now the need has now come up to give a subcontractor an email address. I want to create this address on the external server and leave it there, so he can use his own email client and I don't want to add him to the windows domain.

Everytime i try to send mail as an internal user to this external address, it bounces. ("The e-mail account does not exist at the organization this message was sent to. Check the e-mail address, or contact the recipient directly to find out the correct address.")

How can I enable the Exchange server to send outside of the local DNS?

-J

 

[58sniper]

Exchange isn't going to like it. Since the domain name (likely) shows up in a recipient policy, Exchange is going to assume it's authoritative for that domain name. Hence, if it has no record of that address, it must not exist. The easy way to do it would be give the user an AD account, and limit the user to only OWA.


Pat Richard MVP

 

[TechyMcSe2k]

you should create a (smtp) contact within your exchange that points to that email address of the contractor. This way Exchange treats it as an external email. That contact card should show up in your GAL and would be treated as a valid email address

Cliff, MCSE/MCSA/MCTS/CCNA/VCP/CCA

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