Outlook and exhange server

[Jeff Hill]

I am using oulook 2002.
It is configured for an exchange and a pop3 account.
The default account is the pop account.

How do I make certain that the outgoing smtp that will be
used to send Internet mail will be that of the pop3
account?

The reason I ask is this. Sometimes email will get sent
to the internet out through the exchange server. This is
generally not a problem except sometimes mail gets
returned.

The is reason is this. My exchange server is behind a
firewall. My internet Service provider provided me with
a routable public IP address on my firewall. That
address does not have a dns name. So any mail server
that rejects mail due to no reverse dns will return the
mail as undeliverable.

Any help or thoughts are appreciated.

I might also add that with Outlook 2000 ther was a way to
designate how mail is sent out. I cannot find that
option in 2002

 

[Robert Crayk MVP]

Is this for replying/forwarding or just for new mail, for what its worth
Outlook 2000 with Exchange and Internet mail mixed services wasn't a
supported configuration

 

[Jeff Hill]

It seems to happen most on a reply. Why would it make a
difference?

 

[Robert Crayk MVP]

Because Exchange is good at taking over a send especially on a new email,
with these replies are they replies to users that are on the Exchange domain

 

[Jeff Hill]

Robert,

Actually after looking at it closer, it is happening on
new mails, which are not mails going to users on the
exchange server. It is actually Internet email addresses.

I have noticed before that sometimes exchange will ignore
anything to the right of the @ sign on an email address
and try to look for a user who is not actually in the
exchange server and then return it as undeliverable.

For example
(e-mail address removed), which is an internet email
address, attempt to deliver to Bill in the Exchange
server. It will get returned because Bill does not have
an exchange server account, but he has a username of bill
in Active directory.

anyhow, I agree with you the Exchange server is "taking
over" new outbound internet messages. So can I get
Exchange to ignore those and allow them to be sent out
via pop3 settings of Internet pop3 account in Outlook?

Or maybe can I get Exchange to forward all outbound
requests to a pop3 server that I control?

Jeff

 

[Robert Crayk MVP]

The only way I have found to make it work is by deleting any resolved auto
complete addresses and then pick the address from the Contact folder.