Outlook and 2003 mail server

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Todd Caron

We're a small startup company currently with 14 people. We
are in a Workgroup and we do not have a domain. Our
regular email is outsourced. I've setup a Windows 2003
mail server for Internal only email that we don't want
going out to our provider.
Outlook XP will not send a message to it. The profile I
setup tests correctly and I get the email back saying it's
setup correctly.
Outlook Express works perfectly in every way. You can send
and receive email.
I'm trying to find out why this is so and if there is
anyway to get Outlook to work on this system.

Thank you,
Todd
 
Do you get errors when you attempt to send the message? If so, what are
they?
 
As I stated in my problem, we are in a workgroup
environment. We do not have a Domain. So, on the 2003
server, if I set the mail domain as "mail", I
have "todd@mail". I doesn't recognize that name and won't
send. If I set the domain to "mail.com", then it sends the
message, but I get a mailer-daemon error from our external
email provider:
Failed to deliver to '(e-mail address removed)'
SMTP module(domain @192.168.23.136:mail.com) reports:
host mail-com.mr.outblaze.com says:
550 <[email protected]>: inactive user

This is the details.txt message with it:
Reporting-MTA: dns; smtp.atl.cbeyond.com

Original-Recipient: rfc822;[email protected]
Final-Recipient: rfc822;[email protected]
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0

Again, the Outlook Express works. Also, I'm not sure these
are the errors I got before. I just set it up again for
testing to get the message for you.

Thanks again,
Todd
 
So you're using the POP3 server that comes with Windows 2003 server? What
domains is it set to receive for? You don't actually have to have
registered a domain name to be able to use it internally - you can just set
your POP3 server to receive for that domain and it will. All domain
registration gives you is publishing it in the Domain Name Service (DNS)
servers on the Internet so that people throughout the Internet can resolve
the name to an actual IP address that will handle requests from outside your
network.

Note that todd@mail is not a valid Internet email address - there must be at
least one period in a valid domain name, and a valid domain name is
*required* by the Internet mail standards. So I suspect what you need to do
is just pick an internal domain to be used for your mail, set your POP3
server to accept for that, and setup your Outlook accounts to use it.
 
I'm sorry if you've already seen this. I've replied
before, but I didn't see it show up anywhere.

Failed to deliver to '(e-mail address removed)'
SMTP module(domain @192.168.23.136:mail.com) reports:
host mail-com.mr.outblaze.com says:
550 <[email protected]>: inactive user

This is the details.txt that came with the error:
Reporting-MTA: dns; smtp.atl.cbeyond.com

Original-Recipient: rfc822;[email protected]
Final-Recipient: rfc822;[email protected]
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
 
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