IGetMail - How to Setup Exchange 5.5

1. Choose typical installation

2. Enter your serial number

3. At the screen titled "Organization and Site" - Select to create a new site. Then at the Organization name enter the name of the company, and at the Site Name enter the registered domain that you are using this Exchange Server to use for your e-mail. This should be the part to the right of the "@" sign within your e-mail address. Example "YourCompany.com".

4. Enter the administrator password so Exchange can register its services under the administrator account.

After installation is complete, the setup wizard offers to run the optimizer; you may run this utility and select the values that apply to your setup.

When the optimizer is complete it will automatically restart the Exchange Server.

Install the Service Packs

You should always install the latest service packs when they are available. The installation is typically straight forward, where the service pack will stop the Exchange Server, update the program files, and restart Exchange Server. Your data should remain intact.

Configuring the Exchange Server 5.5

The default installation of Exchange Server 5.5 does not install support for Internet e-mail. You will need to install the Internet e-mail connector by following these steps:

Installing the Internet Mail Connector in Exchange Server 5.5 Service Pack 3

1. From the Microsoft Exchange Administrator, go to the File Menu and select the New Other menu item, and select Internet Mail Service from the sub-menu.

2. The Internet Mail Wizard appears. Use this wizard to configure Exchange Server to support Internet-based mail. Exchange Server shows you a list of requirements that you should verify before continuing.

3. Select the Microsoft Exchange Server in you site on which to install the Internet Mail Service. If you are using a dial-up connection, remember to select the “Allow Internet mail through a dial-up connection” option. The wizard displays the phone book entries that are available under dial-up networking. Select the phone book entry you wish to use when dialing into your ISP. For our example we will assume you have a direct Internet connection.

4. Next the wizard asks you about support for routing e-mail. You should change the setting from “No” to “Yes”, to allow e-mail sent by your clients to be forwarded on to the Internet.

5. At this point, the wizard will ask you to enter information that relates to how your local Exchange Server sends outgoing mail to the Internet. If your server is connected to the Internet and has DNS support setup, the best option is to use DNS. With this option set, Exchange will manage the process of sending e-mail directly. If you do not use DNS and your ISP allows you to send e-mail to them, such that they can send it for you, then select the option “Route all mail through a single host” and in the type-in field, enter the name or IP address of the e-mail server at your ISP. You can obtain this information from your account contact at your ISP. For example, the name of a typical mail server at an ISP may read as “mailhost.ISPname.com.” Some ISPs have split the e-mail into incoming and outgoing. In this case, select the outgoing mail server name, which may have “SMTP” in its name, such as “SMTPMail.ISPname.com.”

6. Exchange Server allows you to send mail to anyone, or to restrict outgoing mail to a set of addresses. Select the option that is appropriate for your work environment. For the purposes of this document, we assume that you accept the typical option, “all internet mail addresses.”

7. Enter your Internet domain name here, in the following format @Registered_Internet_Domain.com. For example, at Lockstep Systems, we would type in: @lockstep.com

8. Specify the address of the Administrator or Postmaster mailbox. The Administrator receives all mail that Exchange Server cannot deliver. The default is Create/Use the mailbox called Administrator. You can select a different account to operate as the Administrator at a later time.

9. Enter the password for the service account. This is the password that corresponds to the account that you established when you originally set up your Exchange Server. Exchange Server asks for this password because it adds an additional service to the list of supported NT services.

10. Exchange Server shows you various messages while it creates your Administrator mailbox and finishes installing the new service to support Internet mail.

11. Now the Internet Mail Service Connector appears in your installed Connections list.

Configuring the Internet Mail Connector

1. At the Microsoft Exchange Administrator, go to the Site Name, Configuration, Connections. Highlight the Internet Mail Service, and double-click on this entry to reveal the Internet Mail Service Properties dialog.

2. On the Internet Mail tabbed page, go to the Specify by E-Mail domain and press the E-mail Domain… button. Use the Add button on the E-Mail Domain dialog to enter the name of your registered Internet domain. Typically, this is “YourCompany.Com.” This is all of the information to the right of the @ in your e-mail address.

3. If you use dial-up networking - Go to the Dial-up Connections tabbed page. Make sure your dial-up networking phone book entry for your ISP is selected. Choose the Mail Retrieval button… On the Mail Retrieval dialog, select the “Do not send retrieval command” option. IGetMail will retrieve the mail for the Exchange Server. The Exchange Server will be used for sending mail. Select the Logon Information…. Button. On the Logon Information dialog, enter the information needed to log on to your ISP in general. For example, this is your user account to log into your ISP for general-purpose activities. Please note that the Domain type in field refers to a Windows user domain, not your Internet domain. Use the rest of the Dial-up Connections page to schedule your mail delivery. Since you are using IGetMail to retrieve your incoming mail, you need to set this Exchange Server schedule to optimize sending mail only. We recommend selecting the “When mail queues, but at most every 10 minutes.” When Exchange queues outgoing mail messages, it will send your outgoing mail in batches every 10 minutes.

4. Navigate to the Connections tabbed page. Under Transfer Mode, select Inbound & Outbound. Exchange Server needs Inbound to accept mail from IGetMail. Under Message Delivery, you should have DNS selected if you want Exchange to directly send e-mail. If you are using your ISP to relay your e-mail then select to forward all e-mail to your ISP and verify that the information presented here matches your ISP’s mail server name and connection method.

5. Navigate to the Routing tabbed page. Under this tab select the radio button “Reroute incoming SMTP mail (required for POP3/IMAP4 support).” You should see your domain name listed and routed to "<inbound>. If you do not see your domain name listed in the Routing section then, select the Add button and type in your Internet domain into the Edit Routing Table Entry dialog. Select the radio button corresponding to the “Should be accepted as “inbound” feature. The purpose of the Routing page is to inform Exchange Server which e-mail to keep locally and which to send on to the Internet..

6. Navigate to the Address Space tabbed page, and press the New button to add support for POP3. Click the New button and then choose “other” from the scroll list under Select an address type. At the Address Type enter the word “POP3.” Set the Cost to “1” and the Address to “*” which stands for all addresses. Click on OK and when the Address space tabbed page is shown again, POP3 and SMTP appear in the Internet Mail Service list.

 Adding E-Mail Users

1. At the Exchange Administrator, highlight the Recipients entry, which appears under the Site Name.

2. Now choose File, New Mailbox, which reveals the Properties dialog containing several tabbed pages. Use the General tabbed page to enter information about a new user.

Navigate to the E-mail Addresses tabbed page. This dialog shows you how the user’s address would appear when using different e-mail protocols. For example, when using SMTP, the user’s address reads as: newuser@companyname.com. Use this dialog to create any aliases you wish to assign to this user. If your New_User also acts as the webmaster, you may create and assign the alias webmaster@companyname.com to New_User. To create and assign aliases for New_User, press the New… button and select an “Internet Address” from the list of e-mail address types. Type in the alias for this user, such as webmaster@companyname.com.