I would like to set exchange to receive email, we have a static ip address and want to have the email directed to the server. Instead of having to retrieve it at an interval. Hopefully this all makes sense, This is my first time here and I could not find an answer, if anyone knows if this has already been asked please direct me to that post, thanks.

What version of Exchange? Long, long ago, you could configure your Internet Mail Connector to do dial connections and use the TURN or ETRN and initiate transfer. However, those days are long gone. Another method used is a POP3 connector, but that is also a great big kludge. Exchange was designed to connect to the Internet the right way, by SMTP. Exchange doesn't include such a connector, but Small Business Server does. If you have SBS, you should post questions about that on the SBS forum. Perhaps if you were to explain what your problem is rather than just the solution you propose, you might get a more creative answer.Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."

Ed, Thanks for the response. The problem may be more difficult to explain but I will try, I have never even used Microsoft exchange, but we do have a small business server with exchange(2003 i think), on it but we do not use any email features it has, we simply use it as a network server, we have 10 employees, with 10 email addresses, and have our emails forwarded (to their alias names) from our domain name provider to our internet service provider, (to maintain the domain name within the email addresses), who only allows 2 email addresses. I would like to have them sent to our server instead of our internet service provider. Am I still in the wrong forum?

You are in the right place. You need to work with your ISP to have your mail directed to the Exchange server instead of its own mailbox server. Before you do that, you'll want to make sure that your Exchange server is set up to receive this mail. For that, you need to configure recipient policy so that your SMTP domains are present. Next you'll need to create mailboxes with all the addresses for which you will be accepting mail. Then you can try a telnet to port 25 of your Exchange server to ensure that you can send a piece of e-mail to the server. For example: Telnet exchangeserver.yourdomain.com 25 helo you.yourdomain.com mail from:you@yourdomain.com rcpt to:you@yourdomain.com data This is a test. . quit Your Exchange mailbox should receive the message. You'll also need to configure your outbound SMTP. Your ISP can guide you to whether you can use DNS for routing outbound mail or if you need to use their smart host. Based on that answer, configure the SMTP connector. This advice is how you'd do it in Exchange. However, in SBS, I believe that there is a wizard to configure most of this for you. You might want to ask about that in the SBS forum. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/smallbusinessserver/threadsEd Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."

You are in the right place. You need to work with your ISP to have your mail directed to the Exchange server instead of its own mailbox server. Before you do that, you'll want to make sure that your Exchange server is set up to receive this mail. For that, you need to configure recipient policy so that your SMTP domains are present. Next you'll need to create mailboxes with all the addresses for which you will be accepting mail. Then you can try a telnet to port 25 of your Exchange server to ensure that you can send a piece of e-mail to the server. For example: Telnet exchangeserver.yourdomain.com 25 helo you.yourdomain.com mail from:you@yourdomain.com rcpt to:you@yourdomain.com data This is a test. . quit Your Exchange mailbox should receive the message. You'll also need to configure your outbound SMTP. Your ISP can guide you to whether you can use DNS for routing outbound mail or if you need to use their smart host. Based on that answer, configure the SMTP connector. This advice is how you'd do it in Exchange. However, in SBS, I believe that there is a wizard to configure most of this for you. You might want to ask about that in the SBS forum. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/smallbusinessserver/threadsEd Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."

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