exchange 2003

anybody familiar with exchange? trying to create an exchange server for company and I have gotten to where I created a test user in ADUC with the default email domain @domain.local.

I can send to that account from itself, I can send to yahoo and hotmail, but I can not send to our actual email domain @domainxx.org.

I also can not receive from hotmail, yahoo or company email @domainxx.org.

Something I am leaving out?

Hello :). You are missing a couple things:

- MX Record for the public IP address of your exchange server
- Port 25 on your router needs to forward traffic to your exchange server
- You need to update your recipient policy in Exchange to include @domain.org as well as @domain.local. Make the @domain.org the default.

Do you need clarification on anything? You may also want to enable the Outlook Web Access feature and enforce SSL. That will mean forwarding port 443 to the Exchange server as well. This is for when users are off-site.

Thanks chris, went to four forums and got the most help here. Opened port 25 and setup 443 for the future (OWA) to private IP of the exchange server.

Examined Default Policy and changed E-Mail Address Policy (smtp) address to domain.org. Do I have to create a new reciepient policy for domain.local? If so, same as default policy but address domain.local?

Working with ISP for hte MX record.

Hi dmoya. Glad to be of help.

Typically, I keep @domain.local and @domain.org in the same policy, I just make @domain.org the default. You can have as many SMTP addresses there as you want. If you look up the documentation on recipient policies, you'll see how you can set up default email addresses to be Firstname.Lastname@domain.org, but keep login names flastname You can even have the system accept FLastname@domain.org, FirstnameL@domain.org, etc... very flexible.

You also want to test to make sure the system is not an open relay. Send me a private message with your domain address and I'll give it a quick test to let you know. Don't post your mail domain address here (or in any public forum).