Patrick
Sun Aug 24 15:16:47 CDT 2003
Mailboxes are setup by creating Domain User Accounts in
Active Directory. When you do this on the Exchange
Server, one of the steps will be "Do you want to setup a
mailbox for user..."
P.S. Websites and email are totally unrealated, but I
know what you mean.
In general to get email to be delivered directly to your
SMTP Server you need:
1. An Internet Domain Name, i.e. abc.com
2. A registered MX Record which points to your mail
server. This is done by the company who is hosing your
domain name.
3. an always on connection, i.e. DSL, Cable, T1,
Satellite so when another company's email server can talk
to yours to exchange email messages.
4. Setup your firewall to expose port 25 to your Exchange
Server or the sendmail host that you have retreive/send
mail to/from the iNternet.
5. If no "always on connection" is available you can have
your ISP maintain the highest MX Record for your domain
name, then queue up your mail on their server. You'll
then dial-up connect to the Internet and use a pop-
downloader to retrieve all of your email on a regular
basis, i.e. ever 30 minutes. This should be done by the
email server, NOT by individual users or your phone
charges will be huge. This is assuming you want to store
email in the Exchange Information Store, as opposed to PST
Files.
5. Get a comprehensive book on Exchange Server & read it
cover to cover. Ideally you should do this "before" you
install Exchange. The idea of Install, then find out what
I should do is NOT recommended.
>-----Original Message-----
>I want to setup my exchange 2000 to be the mailserver for
>everyone on my network. We have a website now and that is
>where the email is comming from. When I setup the server
>that exchange is on how do I tell it to get the email
from
>the website "example: mysite.com"? I have installed
>windows 2000 server and exchange so far we have a main
>server that this one will connect to. How do I go about
>setting up the mail boxes for users?
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>Here is a site that has lots of facts on the SBS 2000
>Server plus you might
>>want to post these questions to the
>microsoft.public.backoffice.smallbiz2000
>>group and they can help you a bunch over there.
>>
http://www.smallbizserver.net/
>>
>>When you set up your server did you set your domain name
>to be?
>>something.local or did you go with domainname.com?
>Basically You get a
>>Static IP from your ISP if you don't have one already.
Or
>there is some
>>services out there that will handle it if you can not
get
>a static IP I know
>>some of the people in the sbs group are doing that now.
>>
>>Are you on a dialup or DSL type of connection? Let's
>start with these
>>questions and then I might know how to tell you to
>proceed but the wizard
>>does handle how you setup your email and ISA and
>connection types.Why don't
>>you post your answer back to the SBS Group and we can go
>from there.
>>
>>Roger Crawford
>>HTS
>>"jhardy" <jhardy012003@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
>>news:033d01c36a47$8e1b1e30$a001280a@phx.gbl...
>>> If i want to have exchange to be my mail server then
>what
>>> are the steps i need to do using SBS Server 2000? Do i
>>> need to register a name such as mail.x.com.au? If so,
>who
>>> (Company) can i do this through? How much will it
cost?
>>>
>>> Then after i have registered, how do i configure
>exchange
>>> to be my mail server? Do i run the internet connection
>>> wizard? What are some of the settings i should choose?
>>> When i ran the ICW i did not see where and how i
>configure
>>> my SBS server to be the mail server. How do i
configure
>>> the clients using outlook 2000?
>>>
>>> At the moment, i have pop3 accounts through my ISP.
>>>
>>> thanks again
>>>
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