Exchange 2000 email accounts setup

Hello all. I have installed an exchange 2000 on top of a Windows 2000 server
box. I have an external IP configured to point to this Exchange for email
delivery routing (so say when someone sends me an email say to:
smith@joeschmo.com, they will be directed to this public static IP) and the
firewall is configured to deliver any traffic on that port to go to my
Exchange internally. My question is, what is the best way to setup the email
accounts? Some of the people will not even have a domain account. I was
using out ISPs servers for pushing the email out...do I change that now to
the in-house server? Can I create email accounts for people that do not
belong to the domain? I am having a tough time because any email I try to
send out is getting queued and goes nowhere. I managed to send emails at one
point, but that was using our ISPs public IP. Since they directed it to our
static public IP I cannot send nor receive anything. Any help would be
greatly greatly appreciated (I am familiar with 5.5, but 2000 is a complete
departure from that). By the way this is a fresh installation on a dedicated
server

Thanks

leo

MartinHTN
Thu Aug 19 08:07:31 CDT 2004

Leo:

I'll answer the easy question first; No, you cannot create a mailbox without
an AD account. In Exchange 2000/2003, a mailbox is an attribute of the AD
account, so you must have an AD account to create a mailbox. Also, if the AD
account is disabled, the mailbox becomes inaccessible and cannot receive
mail, so watch out for that.

Now, for your issues with sending and receiving Internet mail. I'm not sure
how your network is setup exactly. Do you have a firewall? Did you set up an
Exchange SMTP connector to forward all mail to a smart host (your ISP)?
Where do your MX records point to? You probably want to contact your ISP for
some assistance. Any competent ISP should be able to help you get set up
with Exchange since it's so common.

Regards,
Martin

"Leo" <none@none.com> wrote in message
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> Hello all. I have installed an exchange 2000 on top of a Windows 2000
server
> box. I have an external IP configured to point to this Exchange for email
> delivery routing (so say when someone sends me an email say to:
> smith@joeschmo.com, they will be directed to this public static IP) and
the
> firewall is configured to deliver any traffic on that port to go to my
> Exchange internally. My question is, what is the best way to setup the
email
> accounts? Some of the people will not even have a domain account. I was
> using out ISPs servers for pushing the email out...do I change that now to
> the in-house server? Can I create email accounts for people that do not
> belong to the domain? I am having a tough time because any email I try to
> send out is getting queued and goes nowhere. I managed to send emails at
one
> point, but that was using our ISPs public IP. Since they directed it to
our
> static public IP I cannot send nor receive anything. Any help would be
> greatly greatly appreciated (I am familiar with 5.5, but 2000 is a
complete
> departure from that). By the way this is a fresh installation on a
dedicated
> server
>
> Thanks
>
> leo
>
>