Need Help with MS Exchange Server 2007 SP1

[laerol]

I work in a small company and we have a web based mail. Recently, our boss managed to convince his partner to invest in a server. Being the IT guy, i thought we should try it before we buy it.

So i got the domain up on server 2008 standard, installed exchange 07, everything went fine until my boss asked me if i could link exchange to our external webmail that is already in operation. Meaning to say it would be something along the lines of:

Office -> Exchange -> Internet Webmail

I don't know why he wants it this way, but i'm suppose to enable Exchange to send mail -OUT- to the SMTP server on the internet webmail and people should be able to send mail -IN- to our exchange server. I played with the Send and Receive connectors until my eyes are starting to tear.

How do i set it up so i can get Exchange to not only send/receive mail internally(which it does by default) but also to send/receive mail externally using SMTP and POP3 i assume.

As you can probably tell, i'm not a certified microsoft systems engineer and whatnot, this is all trial and error. Appreciate any help.

 

[sonoma1993]

I work in a small company and we have a web based mail. Recently, our boss managed to convince his partner to invest in a server. Being the IT guy, i thought we should try it before we buy it.

So i got the domain up on server 2008 standard, installed exchange 07, everything went fine until my boss asked me if i could link exchange to our external webmail that is already in operation. Meaning to say it would be something along the lines of:

Office -> Exchange -> Internet Webmail

I don't know why he wants it this way, but i'm suppose to enable Exchange to send mail -OUT- to the SMTP server on the internet webmail and people should be able to send mail -IN- to our exchange server. I played with the Send and Receive connectors until my eyes are starting to tear.

How do i set it up so i can get Exchange to not only send/receive mail internally(which it does by default) but also to send/receive mail externally using SMTP and POP3 i assume.

As you can probably tell, i'm not a certified microsoft systems engineer and whatnot, this is all trial and error. Appreciate any help.

here follow these few walkthrough
accepted domains: it's about half way down in the guide
http://www.petri.co.il/configure-exchange-2007-recieve-email-other-domains.htm

send connector
http://www.petri.co.il/configuring-exchange-2007-send-connectors.htm

receive connector: that petri.co.il site had an article about configuring the receive conntector but i cant find it at the moment.

but anyways to configure the receiver connector: goto server configuration: Hub Transport in the Exchange Console, right click in the right pane and select create new receive connector

when the menu pops up, give the connector some easy identifiable name, and for the conenctor type select internet and then hit next

on the next page, you can leave the available IP4 address as is, or manually to tell exchange to look for email on a specific internal ip address of your email server. For example, if your server internal ip address is 10.100.50.20, you would manually insert that into it. and leave the default port of 25 or select a different port number. Also this internal address is where you tell your firewall/router to port forward port 25 so that internet email will flow to your server.

Then the Specify the FQDN this connector will provide in response to hello. That is your company external domain name. If your company external name is gogogadet.com you will put gogogadget.com in that line. Then hit next and then finish.