Exchange 2003 e-mail sending question. HELP!

[cwhiteuk]

Hi

We have Exchange 2003 and a domain (domain.com). Under Exchange we have the employees e-mail address (someone@domain.com).

There are a few employees who would like to keep their @domain.com e-mail account as POP3 on their PCs (separate from the Exchange).

I remember that we had a problem when attempting to set this up under Exchange 2000 because when you send an e-mail from inside the company to these external people, Exchange won't send outside to domain.com because it thinks that it is an internal address.

The work round we had for this was to set up the external people with a PAYG e-mail account and forward the @domain.com e-mail onto their new separate e-mail address.

Hope this makes sense (I'm feeling a little stressed!).

Can someone refresh my memory on this problem and whether there is an easier way around it for Exchange 2003.

Thank you!

 

[MoobyCow]

These are people who are outside of your network? ie Working from home?

If that is the case you could set up your firewall to allow then to connect to your internal email server for POP services if you wanted to.

 

[AdminGreg]

If the employees are inside the company Exchange 2003 allows POP access to the mailboxes. If they're outside the network then you would have to create rules in your firewall to allow them to connect like MoobyCow said before.