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Sending mail through an external internet account - 31.May2008 2:57:01 PM

ekr597

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I am new to Exchange 2007, so please bear with me.

My company currently has a server running Exchange 2003 and I am trying to upgrade it to Exchange 2007. All our mail is sent to an internet mail account and from there is sent to its destination.

My problem is that each email account needs a username and password assigned to it in order for the email to pass through the internet mail account. In Exchange 2003, when I open the properties of an individual's mailbox, it allows me to enter the connection settings (i.e. Server Addresss, Login, Password, Port, and Timeout) so that each user's email settings can be different, but I cannot find anything like this in Exchange 2007. The closest I can find to this is setting up a smart host through the send connectors and while this does allow entering a user name and password, it is not different for each user.

Can someone please help me figure out what I should do.

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RE: Sending mail through an external internet account - 1.Jun.2008 2:32:17 PM

Sembee

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Exchange is not designed to work in that way.
The send connector is what you need to set, but it is designed to work with a single username and password only. Exchange does not route based on sender, only on recipient.
You either need to send email directly by DNS or use a different provider who will allow you to use a single user name and password.

That was the same in Exchange 2003, so I am very puzzled how you managed to do it before.

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RE: Sending mail through an external internet account - 2.Jun.2008 11:35:27 AM

ekr597

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Thanks for your reply Simon, but it seems that I severly confused myself.

After reading your post and re-examining the 2003 server, I realized how the email was sent out and that is no longer the problem.

What I need to do is RECEIVE the email through the internet mail account for each user.

For example, I need the server to pull all emails sent to user@domain.com from the server mail.domain.com while authenticating the request with a username and password.

I understand that Exchange is designed to have the MX records be directed at the server instead of the external internet mail account, but since the server does not have a static IP address, this is not possible.

I believe I have to set up receive connectors for each user, but the recieve connectors under Hub Transport only use IP addresses, not server names. Do I need to set up an edge transport server to do this? Please help.

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RE: Sending mail through an external internet account - 2.Jun.2008 11:46:15 AM

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You cannot pull email in from another server using Exchange 2003, unless you were using a POP3 connector or ETRN.

If you were using ETRN then you are out of luck as that was removed from Exchange 2007.
If you were using a POP3 connector then you were either on Small Business Server or using a third party tool.

The fact that you are on a dynamic IP address is not a barrier to having email delivered as Exchange was designed. As long as you can make a connection on port 25 inbound from external hosts then you can use Exchange on a dynamic IP. I did so for two years. http://www.amset.info/exchange/dynamicip.asp

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