Exchange 2000 SMTP

One of the first things that I had to do was to define the 193 domain names that we own so that we could continue to receive email. This is done in the "Exchange System Manager" program, in the "Recipient Policies" section of "Recipients". Simply expand the properties of the "Default Policy" and add the domain names desired. Any domain name listed in this section (and enabled via checkbox) can receive email. Domains not listed will be bounced.

The actual email addresses are defined in the properties of various objects such as usernames and public folders.

Note that in order to use SMTP (and newsgroups or NNTP) you must have previously installed the Internet Information Services (IIS) application on your computer, with SMTP (and NNTP if you want newsgroups) enabled. Exchange 2000 uses the Windows SMTP engine to perform it's SMTP sending and receiving.

The SMTP handling of Exchange 2000 is far, far better than it was in earlier versions of Exchange. Previously, you had to install a special routine called a connecter - in Exchange 2000, however, it is all installed for you. Best of all, it is more or less ready to go out of the box.

There are many other SMTP parameters which you can define. A sample screen is shown below.

You can also examine the outbound SMTP queues if you desire. This is useful to determine if your messages are being sent as desired, as all retries and such will be listed. You can also abort messages from being sent at this point.