Hi We have Exchange 2003 and a domain (domain.com). Under Exchange we have the employees e-mail address (someone@domain.com). There are a few employees who would like to keep their @domain.com e-mail account as POP3 on their PCs (separate from the Exchange). I remember that we had a problem when attempting to set this up under Exchange 2000 because when you send an e-mail from inside the company to these external people, Exchange won't send outside to domain.com because it thinks that it is an internal address. The work round we had for this was to set up the external people with a PAYG e-mail account and forward the @domain.com e-mail onto their new separate e-mail address. Hope this makes sense (I'm feeling a little stressed!). Can someone refresh my memory on this problem and whether there is an easier way around it for Exchange 2003. Thank you!

Why would you let them do this? POP3 is nowhere near as good as a centralised system such as Exchange. Tell these users that we are now in the 21st Century.

Neil S, Thanks for the useless response. I have the same situation, because I have an external hosting company hosting my website and email accounts and many of our employees go out to field offices for 6-9 months at a time. I have the external hosting company because I do not want icomming traffic into my server. If anyone has an idea, please respond. Thanks

Here here - wouldn't it be nice to be able to tell them what to do - oh well, we live in a real world. My only idea, or hint is that I set up a pop3 with my pop3 as the isp pop3 in mail client, with the smtp server set as mail.server.com where server is the domain name of your domain - works a treat. Use the exchange user and password for the smtp. Then forward the emails from SBS2003. Set the reply address from the mail client to be the domain name.. Ugh! that is one messy reply - sorry about that, I just drank about a gallon of coffee and am coming off the night shift. Let me know if you need anything Chris.

I found this on microsoft's site. Seemed to be the trick for my situation. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;300681