Hello there, thanks for reading this.
The quick question is, can BT be used as a smarthost for Exchange Server 2007? Is anyone using BT as a smarthost instead of setting up SMTP?
e.g. using mail.btconnect.com in the smarthost field and then authenticating using the BT username and password.
We have BT Business Broadband and currently use Outlook 2007 for emails. We host our emails with Fasthosts and not BT. For outgoing mail we authenticate using our BT username and password.
We have registered our main domain with BT and Incoming and Outgoing emails work fine 99% of the time using Outlook.
The reason I'm asking about the smarthost is I have a new IBM x3400 server with Small Business Server 2008 on. This is a separate installation for test purposes. I've set up the pop3 connector and configured the smarthost as mail.btconnect.com.
I can receive external emails for my test users on SBS 2008 no problem. I can also send an email to another SBS2008 user no problem. I have even enabled OWA (Outlook Web Access) and can access all my users email account over the internet.
I JUST CANT SEND EMAILS TO EXTERNAL EMAIL ADDRESSES! :4-dontkno
The Inbox for the account I tried to send external emails from now has three emails from Microsoft Exchange as follows:-
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Delivery Delayed
This message has not yet been delivered. Microsoft Exchange will continue to try delivering the message on your behalf.
Delivery of this message will be attempted until 6/4/2010 4:46:04 PM (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time : Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London. Microsoft Exchange will notify you if the message can't be delivered by that time.
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I've read that BT is great when using Outlook but for some reason BT has problems with Exchange.
Any help would be really appreciated ray:
The quick question is, can BT be used as a smarthost for Exchange Server 2007? Is anyone using BT as a smarthost instead of setting up SMTP?
e.g. using mail.btconnect.com in the smarthost field and then authenticating using the BT username and password.
We have BT Business Broadband and currently use Outlook 2007 for emails. We host our emails with Fasthosts and not BT. For outgoing mail we authenticate using our BT username and password.
We have registered our main domain with BT and Incoming and Outgoing emails work fine 99% of the time using Outlook.
The reason I'm asking about the smarthost is I have a new IBM x3400 server with Small Business Server 2008 on. This is a separate installation for test purposes. I've set up the pop3 connector and configured the smarthost as mail.btconnect.com.
I can receive external emails for my test users on SBS 2008 no problem. I can also send an email to another SBS2008 user no problem. I have even enabled OWA (Outlook Web Access) and can access all my users email account over the internet.
I JUST CANT SEND EMAILS TO EXTERNAL EMAIL ADDRESSES! :4-dontkno
The Inbox for the account I tried to send external emails from now has three emails from Microsoft Exchange as follows:-
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Delivery Delayed
This message has not yet been delivered. Microsoft Exchange will continue to try delivering the message on your behalf.
Delivery of this message will be attempted until 6/4/2010 4:46:04 PM (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time : Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London. Microsoft Exchange will notify you if the message can't be delivered by that time.
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I've read that BT is great when using Outlook but for some reason BT has problems with Exchange.
Any help would be really appreciated ray: