what address format do I use for?

[tood]

Im connecting an outlook express client to an evaluation copy of exchange 5.5 that is not connecting to the internet. I can send and recieve email to myself through outlook 2000, but when I use outlook express I get an error 550. A search on Microsoft said to enable relaying on smtp, but when I do this the email is sent but it never arrives at the mailbox.

what is the email address format I need to use? or am I missing something else that needs to be setup for express to work?

I have left everything default when setting up the exchange server. the users last name is planner, altas = p

I have tried sending this to the formats show on the mailbox's "email addresses" tab but nothing it working

any help would be appreciated

Tood

 

[Zelandakh]

Why use Outlook Express? Exchange is a corporate information centre and should not be used in conjunction with a piece of free software.

Use Outlook instead.

 

[Guest_imported]

You need to send to the smtp address. If you got a 550 sending to a user on your own server, you used the wrong address - Exchange was trying to send it out to the internet (which of course it can't do anyway with your setup). Look on a user's mailbox, email addresses tab. That is the address you need from Outlook Express. It will be something like user@site.org.com.

 

[tood]

sincgib,

I'm using the format user@site.org.com. Does site.org.com have to be setup on a DNS server for it to work?

Zelandakh,

I would love just to use outlook as I have that working, but I have been asked to set up an environment so a 3rd party product can send emails. this product can only use an outlook express client and must connect to a mapi compliant email server.

Thanks for the comments

 

[Guest_imported]

On the Routing tab of the IMS, do you have site.org.com routed inbound?

 

[tood]

Sincgib,

thanks, you steered me in the right direction. It is now working, yahoooo. the problem was that I hadn't installed IMS (i thought it was used with connections to the internet only). After installing and configuring ims and dns it is now routing outlook express mail to a mailbox.

again thanks.

for the record:
I found a good article at the exchange 5.5 product documentation site for setting up IMS and dns, search for "Internet Mail Service"

http://www.microsoft.com/Exchange/en/55/help/default.asp?url=/Exchange/en/55/help/default.htm

again thanks for the information

 

[Guest_imported]

The article you mention is probably also on your Exchange CD. There's quite a lot on there.