Internet email domain suffix addressing problem

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Hi, I have just installed W2K with AD and Exchange2000.

W2K Pro clients using Outlook2000 can send/receive
internal email ok. External email can be sent ok but have
the reply address of our internal AD domain suffix
(company.zz rather than our registered internet domain
company.com.au).

Clients forward mail directly to our ISP SMTP server and
POP it from our host provider. I have tried to setup
Exchange so it just stores received email.

Clients are DHCP configured and point to DC AD/DNS. Im not
familiar with DNS so it was configured using the setup
wizard when installing W2K.

Weird thing is that a couple of clients actually have
correctly addressing internet email but all network,
Outlook, Exchange settings are identical to other clients.

From what I understand, we shouldnt need MX or reverse
records in the DNS. Is there something I am missing?

Any suggestions appreciated. Cheers
 
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Ziggy said:
Hi, I have just installed W2K with AD and Exchange2000.

W2K Pro clients using Outlook2000 can send/receive
internal email ok. External email can be sent ok but have
the reply address of our internal AD domain suffix
(company.zz rather than our registered internet domain
company.com.au).
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Add your Public mail domain to the recipient policy in Exchange then it can
receive mail to your domain. You can then set it to be the primary domain
then any mail sent from OWA will have the return mail address of your public
domain.
Clients forward mail directly to our ISP SMTP server and
POP it from our host provider. I have tried to setup
Exchange so it just stores received email.
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Once the recipient policy is correct you can have your external host
provider forward mail for your domain to you.
Clients are DHCP configured and point to DC AD/DNS. Im not
familiar with DNS so it was configured using the setup
wizard when installing W2K.

Weird thing is that a couple of clients actually have
correctly addressing internet email but all network,
Outlook, Exchange settings are identical to other clients.

From what I understand, we shouldnt need MX or reverse
records in the DNS. Is there something I am missing?
Click to expand...

If you use your ISP as a relay you won't need an MX or reverse lookup, just
set up an SMTP connector to your ISP as a smart host and have your ISP
forward mail to you.
 
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