disable exchange - please help

[TR]

I have the exchange server installed but we do not wish to use it (all of the
users pop their e-mail). How can it be disabled? I periodically have issues
with a 505 error when a user tries to forward e-mail to another user within
the same domain.

Thanks.

[Marina Roos [SBS-MVP]]

Hi TR,

Why wouldn't you want to use Exchange? It can handle pop as well and this
way all the email is central on the server in stead of on the workstations.
It will get backed up too that way.

Having said that: just disable the exchange services in the Services applet.

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[Ray Fong [MSFT]]

You should be able to stop all services started with Microsoft Exchange and
SMTP service. Then verify none of the client's email profile is pointing to
Exchange.

Ray Fong
Microsoft SBS Product Support

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[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

You don't have to use Exchange at all. You can stop all the services and
have users use PST files and POP accounts, frankly.

However, I don't understand why you wouldn't want to use Exchange to handle
everything. Even if you use the dreaded POP connector on SBS to download all
the mail, it's a lot better than having individual users POP it - faster,
lets them use OWA, etc - and you are much better off using the exchange
mailboxes for delivery than PST files. What's your setup? Do you have a
registered Internet domain? What kind of Internet connection?

[TR]

Frankly, the reason I don't want to use Exchange is that I am not familiar
with it. That being said, our setup is that we have a registered internet
domain, a DSL connection, and all users use a PST file. When I create their
local e-mail accounts, after starting Outlook, I delete the Exchange account.
Is there good documentation on using the POP connector?

[Marina Roos [SBS-MVP]]

Hi TR,

Does your ISP support SMTP? This will be even easier for you to setup.

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[TR]

Yes, it does support SMTP.

[TR]

Hopefully I can set-up the exchange server with an extra e-mail address to
test then, after I verify it works well, I can convert the others. Any help
on how to do this or where to find documentation on how is appreciated.

Thanks.

[Marina Roos [SBS-MVP]]

Hi TR,

Contact your ISP and ask them to set it up for you. They will need to know
your public IP. Then rerun CEICW and enable internet email. It will ask for
your registered email domain name. Forward port 25 from your router to your
external nic IP and you should be good to go.

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[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

TR wrote:
> Hopefully I can set-up the exchange server with an extra e-mail
> address to test then, after I verify it works well, I can convert the
> others. Any help on how to do this or where to find documentation on
> how is appreciated.

For an overview of how this works, see Mark Fugatt's excellent article
written for Exchange 2000:
http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/MF002.html

You'll need to run the CEICW, and will need whomever hosts your public DNS
change your MX record to point to an A record they create (such as
mail.mydomain.com, which points at your public IP). Then make sure port 25
is open inbound from the Internet in your router/firewall/ISA/whatnot.

Also, you should really stop using PST files and store all mail in the
mailboxes on the server. You can move/copy/import data from the existing PST
files ...either set up new mail profiles for the users that have only the
Exchange server/mailbox specified, or modify the existing profiles. I
usually go for the former.

Once you've set up Exchange properly, it is *much* easier to administer than
a bunch of individual POP accounts & PST files. Note that you will need to
make sure that you have good Exchange-aware antivirus software on the
server, and that you'll need to make sure you're doing proper online backups
of the Exchange stores. Don't let file-level antivirus on the server touch
the Exchange database, log, queue, or badmail folders. Also, if you didn't
specify where you wanted the Exchange databases & logs were stored when you
installed SBS, you should probably check to make sure they aren't on your
system volume - move them to another volume.

Also remember to enable deleted item retention on the mail store - I'd say 5
days minimum. That way people can get items back themselves after they
delete them in error. Also use mailbox quotas set on the store (first &
second triggers only - don't penalize senders by refusing delivery when a
mailbox is over quota) and make any needed exceptions in the user's ADUC
properties. Don't have any mailbox without a quota, and remember that you're
limited to 16GB per store in Exchange Standard - so do the math and allow
for extra space for deleted item retention, etc.

You can assign multiple e-mail addresses very easily to your mailboxes, even
with other domains if you add them to your recipient policy/policies.