Hi we have sbs 2008 premium. We have a registered domain with a cpanel, some ofour usersis working remotely and onlyusesMS Outlook primarily thus there is no need tocreate seperate users for them on exchange they are primarily outside users with the same domain name as on exchange.Now when I try to send out an email to themthe exchange reconize them as internal users and try to send out via .local which will not work.Is there a way to bypass this problem?Thanks

Check the email address. If the users are outside your domain, exchange will only send the mails through SMTP address.Raj

RajThanks for the reply let me give you an illustration. My email address is for example wihan@muhanga.co.zaand is a user on exchange. Now I try to send out to hannes@muhanga.co.za which not a user on exchange. When I am sending the email is comes back with not such a user. I'm thinkingexchange recognise the @muhanga and try tosend it to hannes@muhanga.local which will off coure not work.Please helpRegards

Hello,Configuring an Internal Relay accepted domain will help to resolve the issue. See here for more help http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996910(EXCHG.80).aspxregards from www.windowsadmin.infoManuPhilip

There is no way to prevent Exchange route mail to Internet without doing a local lookup. I suggest you refer to the similar thread below: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/exchangesvrtransport/thread/c613c64c-6e56-45a9-8a25-249906cad2e9 Thanks, Elvis