Outbound mail from new E2K7 server

1 Jul 2009 7:04 PM

Andy Siegel

I have an Exchange 2003 server and am standing up a new Exchange 2007 server.
The new server seems to play very well with the 2003 server. Outbound mail
from the 2007 server go out through the 2003 server. Here's where I'm kind
of confused. Once I get all my mailboxes moved over to the new 2007 server,
how do I get it to send mail out on its own?

Thank you.

1 Jul 2009 7:07 PM

Andy David {MVP}

On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:04:01 -0700, Andy Siegel
<AndySie***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have an Exchange 2003 server and am standing up a new Exchange 2007 server.
> The new server seems to play very well with the 2003 server. Outbound mail
>from the 2007 server go out through the 2003 server. Here's where I'm kind
>of confused. Once I get all my mailboxes moved over to the new 2007 server,
>how do I get it to send mail out on its own?
>
>Thank you.
>

Create a send connector to the internet. Make the 2007 server the
source server.

1 Jul 2009 7:46 PM

Andy Siegel

You know, I looked at that and wondered if that's all I have to do. I assume
that I can just change the current send connector and instead of the source
being to old server, change the source to the new server, correct? I'm sorry
for how stupid this was, but I'm just learning my way around 2007 - boy is it
different.

Thanks again.

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"Andy David {MVP}" wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:04:01 -0700, Andy Siegel
> <AndySie***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >I have an Exchange 2003 server and am standing up a new Exchange 2007 server.
> > The new server seems to play very well with the 2003 server. Outbound mail
> >from the 2007 server go out through the 2003 server. Here's where I'm kind
> >of confused. Once I get all my mailboxes moved over to the new 2007 server,
> >how do I get it to send mail out on its own?
> >
> >Thank you.
> >
>
>
> Create a send connector to the internet. Make the 2007 server the
> source server

2 Jul 2009 11:37 PM

Andy David {MVP}

On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:46:01 -0700, Andy Siegel
<AndySie***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>You know, I looked at that and wondered if that's all I have to do. I assume
>that I can just change the current send connector and instead of the source
>being to old server, change the source to the new server, correct? I'm sorry
>for how stupid this was, but I'm just learning my way around 2007 - boy is it
>different.
>
>Thanks again.

I would create a new 2007 send connector, add the 2007 server as the
source server and delete the 2003 SMTP connector. All the messages
to/from the 2003 side will go through the RGCs.