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Exchange 2000 Server and POP

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Schoolies

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I have my own personal website being hosted locally at my house. What I would like to do is to be able to receive mail that is sent to my website. For example, say, my website name is "test.com", I want to be able to setup email accounts on my exchange server so that when people e-mail "brian@test.com", it will go to my exchange server, and then the email will be dumped into the "brian" email account.

I have some twists to throw in..... my ISP blocks the SMTP port, 25. However, this should not affect POP, 110, right? I also have a firewall setup so if there is a solution to my problem and I need to open another port besides 110, please let me know.


THANKS
 
BTW, I have already setup the necessary DNS (MX and A records). I have to use zoneedit because, of course, my ISP blocks the ports necessary for my internal DNS server.
 
Originally posted by: Schoolies
I have my own personal website being hosted locally at my house. What I would like to do is to be able to receive mail that is sent to my website. For example, say, my website name is "test.com", I want to be able to setup email accounts on my exchange server so that when people e-mail "brian@test.com", it will go to my exchange server, and then the email will be dumped into the "brian" email account.

I have some twists to throw in..... my ISP blocks the SMTP port, 25. However, this should not affect POP, 110, right? I also have a firewall setup so if there is a solution to my problem and I need to open another port besides 110, please let me know.


THANKS
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Your ISP blocks smtp? Do you have email with your ISP? If so, they are NOT blocking it.

Take a look here for all your Exchange server requirements. http://www.msexchange.org/
 
My ISP blocks it, here's the link:

Link

Thanks for that link, I've gone there before and it explains how to do it with SMTP but not with POP.
 
Originally posted by: Schoolies
My ISP blocks it, here's the link:

Link

Thanks for that link, I've gone there before and it explains how to do it with SMTP but not with POP.
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I guess your ISP only allows filtered IPs (theirs) to smtp passthrough. Oh well, you are fubard. That sucks, and I'd complain, or find another ISP. To the best of my knowledge, POP is only for clients to download email, as your server cannot receive email without SMTP, unless there is a way to configure the listening port to something else.
 
Yea, I wish complaining would do anything but, "that's why we have our business service for ONLY $70.00 a month". 🙁

I can change the smtp port on exchange server but how is my external dns server going to know to forward to that port?

Either way, any ideas on how I can retrieve mail from my personal domain. As long as I will receive mail that is sent to the domain I'll be satisfied I guess, so if it means not using my exchange server, so be it.

Thanks
 
Unless you find some intermediary service to recieve the email on port 25 and forward it to your mail server you're screwed.

Also Exchange seems a little pricy for a handfull of accounts, especially since you're not getting any real use ouf it's only benefits which are the shared mail, calendar, etc aspects.
 
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