Greetngs Community, First I have to say I've been out of Windows Server installations for a while - went off on to an Oracle DB and PHP reporting tangent for several years. Was downsized and decided to work for myself - learning curve of what I used to do included. Just installed SBS 2003 SP2 - Exchange comes bundled and the customer wants to use. When setting up the Domain the setup routine recommended and I went along with the .local extension. Employees use external POP3 accounts scattered across Yahoo, Hughes and their outsourced hosted .com domain. The basic question is - what is the best way to set this up so they can communicate and use Exchange internally as well as use their POP3 accounts. They are receiving email in fine, but when replying the destination host(s) says it cannot / will not accept anything from a .local origin. All help is appreciated and again - apologize for being so green on this - but it's been quite a while ... Thank you -

In the using the Configure E-mail and Internet Connection Wizard. there is an option to supply your external smtp name space. Run through these procedures and then configure external DNS MX records so that internet servers can locate your SBS server for SMTP routing. Mike Crowley A+, Network+, Security+, MCT, MCSE, MCTS, MCITP: Enterprise Administrator / Messaging Administrator