Exchange server-email set up
12 March 2002, 01:46 PM
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& if you can't manage SMTP, I know all about setting up Exch2000 to collect mail from POP3 boxes & distribute it 
Keep the ISA on a separate box from Exch & use two NICs per box one aimed at the local n/work & one at the router/firewall.
[Edited by Puff The Magic Wagon! - 12/3/2002 1:47:22 PM]
Keep the ISA on a separate box from Exch & use two NICs per box one aimed at the local n/work & one at the router/firewall.
[Edited by Puff The Magic Wagon! - 12/3/2002 1:47:22 PM]
03 December 2002, 12:54 PM
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Could anyone give me some basic instructions for setting up a mail server? (or point me to somewhere on the internet??) I'm using Win2k server + exchange server + ISA server. PC clients will all use Win98/Outlook/I.E
I'd like to set up a system where there are up to 10 different users who could email each other and receive mail from an internet domain name setup, passing via an email scanner on the server. there is also a router in the system to connect to the outside world.
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I'd like to set up a system where there are up to 10 different users who could email each other and receive mail from an internet domain name setup, passing via an email scanner on the server. there is also a router in the system to connect to the outside world.
Ta
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03 December 2002, 01:42 PM
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Tony I'd guess you have the 10 accounts created within exchange, and they can all mail each other without any problems, I'd be tempted to setup mailbox limits etc, as before you know it your IS will grow ridiculously, I've not done much with exchange and internet mail, but I'd think you're going to need your IMC pointing to your ISP, with POP3/Internet mail connector configured to begin with.
03 December 2002, 01:44 PM
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Its very easy - Try this as a starting point
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/itsolutions/guide/deploy/d_04_tt1.asp
Any probs give me a shout
M
Its very easy - Try this as a starting point
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/itsolutions/guide/deploy/d_04_tt1.asp
Any probs give me a shout
M
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03 December 2002, 01:58 PM
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Gulp 
I think I'm going to have to research this a bit more..then translate all the answers you guys have given me...
I've just learnt how to set up a server + clients, which seemed pretty straight forward and works no probs with diff users/permissions e.t.c. but this looks like a quantum leap forward, ability wise.
As I've said before in a thread, I'm an ICT gov at a primary school. The last 5 yrs so-called professional IT people have set up and fiddled with the school network, and it never works...hence I've built a test bed + client at home and intend reformatting and rebuilding 25 PC's + server at school in just over a weeks time.
I'm confident I can set up the basic network system but am now not so confident about setting up an email exchange...
We have never had an email system at school, only the basics (that didn't work)!
Monkeyboy and PTMW! if I could mail you with further Q's once I've checked out the link and had a dabble on the PC's over the next 2 nights, that would be excellent.
Ta very much
Tony
I think I'm going to have to research this a bit more..then translate all the answers you guys have given me...
I've just learnt how to set up a server + clients, which seemed pretty straight forward and works no probs with diff users/permissions e.t.c. but this looks like a quantum leap forward, ability wise.
As I've said before in a thread, I'm an ICT gov at a primary school. The last 5 yrs so-called professional IT people have set up and fiddled with the school network, and it never works...hence I've built a test bed + client at home and intend reformatting and rebuilding 25 PC's + server at school in just over a weeks time.
I'm confident I can set up the basic network system but am now not so confident about setting up an email exchange...
We have never had an email system at school, only the basics (that didn't work)!
Monkeyboy and PTMW! if I could mail you with further Q's once I've checked out the link and had a dabble on the PC's over the next 2 nights, that would be excellent.
Ta very much
Tony
03 December 2002, 02:00 PM
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1. Install win2000 & SP3, Call the domain what you want, if you like call it yourdomain.local but never .com,co.uk etc...
2. Install exchange 2000, make sure you have smtp & NNTP services installed, you can do this from add/remove windows components under IIS.
3. Service Pack Exchange to SP3.
4. Go to exchange system manager drill down the protocols from the server and select default smtp virtual server, right click add assign private NIC IP to it.
5.Go back to system manager top level and select recipient polices, select default policy properties and the email tab.
6. click new and select smtp type here your actual domain name, eg. @yourdomain.co.uk. set as primary and apply.
7. Call your ISP to set a MX record to point to your IP, set a port 25 forwarding rule on your router or firewall to point to private lan address.
8.Connect clients outlook, and happy emailing.
Thats it in a nutshell.
2. Install exchange 2000, make sure you have smtp & NNTP services installed, you can do this from add/remove windows components under IIS.
3. Service Pack Exchange to SP3.
4. Go to exchange system manager drill down the protocols from the server and select default smtp virtual server, right click add assign private NIC IP to it.
5.Go back to system manager top level and select recipient polices, select default policy properties and the email tab.
6. click new and select smtp type here your actual domain name, eg. @yourdomain.co.uk. set as primary and apply.
7. Call your ISP to set a MX record to point to your IP, set a port 25 forwarding rule on your router or firewall to point to private lan address.
8.Connect clients outlook, and happy emailing.
Thats it in a nutshell.
03 December 2002, 02:14 PM
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I looked at the MS Exchange server option when I set up the Email system for my company, but the license costs were prohibitive.
I opted in the end for 'Vpop3' mailserver software. A fraction of the cost of MS and does the same job www.vpop3.co.uk. The vsock which is a free download as well works as a router offering all the PC's on the LAN to surf as well off this connection and offers basic firewall capabilities. It runs off TCP/IP and is resident on the PC I am typing this from. The dot.com arrangement can be had through a Domain & Email forwarding company for an annual fee if you want it to look professional.
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I opted in the end for 'Vpop3' mailserver software. A fraction of the cost of MS and does the same job www.vpop3.co.uk. The vsock which is a free download as well works as a router offering all the PC's on the LAN to surf as well off this connection and offers basic firewall capabilities. It runs off TCP/IP and is resident on the PC I am typing this from. The dot.com arrangement can be had through a Domain & Email forwarding company for an annual fee if you want it to look professional.
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1. Install win2000 & SP3, Call the domain what you want, if you like call it yourdomain.local but never .com,co.uk etc...
03 December 2002, 02:37 PM
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yes, the main reason for setting the domain name to .local is that if you ever tried browsing to your home page from the private LAN it will send all your packets to email server and give you a DNS error or if you have IIS running it will dump the IIS home page.
You can get around this by using certain firewalls or routers and setting up routing tables to redirect the packet.
If you are going to host your server to the web in DMZ then only do it but then again theres several ways to do this.
From what I can see the router in question seems it will not have this capability. Its a pain when it happens.
You can get around this by using certain firewalls or routers and setting up routing tables to redirect the packet.
If you are going to host your server to the web in DMZ then only do it but then again theres several ways to do this.
From what I can see the router in question seems it will not have this capability. Its a pain when it happens.
03 December 2002, 02:48 PM
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Strange, but each to their own Rayman.
I've setup a whole wedge of Win 2000 + Exchange 2000 environments and we always use the full domain name. Just add extra records into the DNS on the W2000 box and all is fine. No issues.
I've setup a whole wedge of Win 2000 + Exchange 2000 environments and we always use the full domain name. Just add extra records into the DNS on the W2000 box and all is fine. No issues.
03 December 2002, 03:01 PM
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Hi Chris we been setting them this way for some time, there is numerous ways to do it like yours.
We have alot of customers such as MOD, "Stock Exchange" etc... they prefer to have all rules dictated and controlled by firewalls. We tend to find it easier to control rules,records via the firewall remotely. We just setup forwarders on 2000 DNS servers to point to the firewall for security. These people don't like people internally changing records.
We have alot of customers such as MOD, "Stock Exchange" etc... they prefer to have all rules dictated and controlled by firewalls. We tend to find it easier to control rules,records via the firewall remotely. We just setup forwarders on 2000 DNS servers to point to the firewall for security. These people don't like people internally changing records.
03 December 2002, 05:14 PM
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hello andrewza, you a bind 8.1 person then
to be honest I'm not a DNS expert, but know it's the key to "life itself" apparantly, ask any pony-tailed, combat wearing, half-lifer..,.no offence to anyone who fits this category btw...just shunty playing.
shunty
to be honest I'm not a DNS expert, but know it's the key to "life itself" apparantly, ask any pony-tailed, combat wearing, half-lifer
..,.no offence to anyone who fits this category btw...just shunty playing.shunty
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