Trying to setup Exchange to send mail (SMTP) to other SMTP server

[Voodoo_fx]

Im inside a local network, I can recieve mail fine, but I need to setup my mailer to send to a offsite SMTP server, and not my win2k server as the SMTP server. Can anyone help me?


Thanks!

[engjohn]

give me a better dicription of what needs to happen.
is it the outlook client that needs to send from an exernal smtp server, or is it a webpage asp script that needs to send on the external smtp server.... Or is it that you need your exchage server to forward all mail to an external mail server???

[dropadrop]

You need to get info on the smtp server you would be using. I don't think anyone here will be able to help, as there are not really any "public" smtp servers that you could use.

Most smtp servers authenticate by checking the ip-address teh computer trying to send mail has. This would mean that your best option would be to find out if the isp the network connects through has a server you could use.

There are some that let you autenticate with a username and password, but you would have to get the username and password from somewhere....

[Voodoo_fx]

im using a home cable account, i had to set it up for my RR stmp server otherwise places like yahoo and aol would reject my email because it was from a private IP.


None the less here is how I fixed it, I went under the Exchange managment consone and setup the smart host to be my mail server and then configured the DNS servers to resolve that ip address doing a whois