The office is about 1200 kilometers away in Sydney and they are accessing mail via an internet connection. Currently the office in Sydney is using one dialup line to a local ISP for all internet activities. They are about to move in 2 weeks to new offices at which time we are going to have an ISDN connection between the 2 offices.
OWA is certainly a possibility but due to the number of users trying to access the internet from this site it is unreliable at best. Thanks for the suggestions anyway. Regards... Greg ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wayne Hanks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MS-Exchange Admin Issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 4:49 PM Subject: RE: Relaying problem > When you say remote, how are they remote? Are they simply at another site > and using internal routing or are they using a VPN to get in across the > Internet? > > AFAIK there are 2 options (the gurus may be able to suggest others). One is > to use OWA and do away with Outlook Express ( which is a good thing as you > never know what is going to be broken as new versions come out) or if you > know what ip addresses these users have you can allow relaying specifically > for those addresses (at least I think you can I haven't actually done this > myself) . I would suggest that if you do the second that you enforce > authentication for clients before allowing relaying. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, 3 January 2002 13:39 > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Relaying problem > > > > Hi > > I appear to be having a problem with some remote users attaching to my > exchange server using Outlook Express. The issue is that if I allow > relaying all remote users are able to send and receive email. However if I > have it this way I am susceptible to spammers. (already happened once, never > again) When I stop it from allowing relaying no remote users are able to > send email. Instead they receive an NDR saying that relaying is not > allowed. > > I am using exchange 2000 with the latest service pack and Outlook Express > for the clients. I suspect that I need to alter the way I have it setup. > Is there a step by step guide to seting up Exchange for pop3/smtp clients? > > Regards... Greg > List Charter and FAQ at: > http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm > > > > List Charter and FAQ at: > http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm > List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
