So I'm migrating my small businesses email from an exchange (2010) server to office 365 (exchange 2013). Users have their accounts connected in outlook. If i have the identical setup on Office 365 (email addresses, passwords, userprinciplename all the same), will swapping over the MX records require users to re-add their mail to outlook or will it be zero config?
PS - I'm migrating their mail and setting up forwarding on their accounts so they don't lose any mail.
Outlook does not use the MX record to connect to Exchange, the MX Record is only used for incoming mail from a third party.
Outlook connects to Exchange locally using the inernal hostname of the Exchange server, in an sbs environment this is SERVER.DOMAIN.LOCAL.
You could attempt to get around this my adding host records to all the PCs via group policy/script to point hostname to the new server but then the name of the server will change.
You will most likely have to reconfigure Outlook as certificates and encryption will change.
In the past for Exchange 2007 and 2010 you were given the Microsoft Office customisation tool to create an MSP file that you could use to roll out an outlook profile using group policy but you will need to check if this is available to you.
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I have a mac osx server at my office. I have only one email address configured on it because it's an email address outside my GSuite account. That email address was created for sending mails from a php script (I don't want to pay to Google for that email address because I don't need all of the Google Services on it). I configured PHP Mailer for sending mails using that email account.
It's connecting perfectly fine, authentication is correct, etc., but there is one problem: if I send mails to #mydomain.com it says that account doesn't exist, but it does exist, only that it is hosted on GSuite. If I send mails outside mydomain, it works fine.
Question is: how do I route those mails to look up for the correct MX récords? I mean, how to make those #mydomain.com emails reach the GSuite host?
You can have multiple MX records per domain. It is possible. They will use priorities. You can even have multiple email servers checking emails from each other.
However, you case with hosted emails this won't work. Google is not going to let you do this.
You will have to pay.
I´m very new to Zimbra and setting up mail servers.
I have the requirement to create domains with email accounts, so I´ve set up a virtual machine with zimbra.
It has worked fine until I created a new domain incl. account, which I wanted to connect with outlook.
I did this before with the host domain and it was no problem to send and retrieve mails via outlook, but with an other domain it doesn´t work.
I can access the account on the web interface.
When I try to connect with outlook it seems like it can´t find the domain name?
To sum up:
zimbra host: mail.example.local
admin#mail.example.local works with outlook
-> new domain + account in zimbra test#test.local doesn´t work with outlook
when I access test.local via browser I can login with test account.
Can anyone help me or give me an advice?
I can't find any information in the outlook log files...
Greets
In outlook you mast set imap/pop server mail.example.local or set dns A record test.local = mail.example.local
I have redirected a domain from PLESK to another server (cPanel) and also I have transferred the code from PLESK TO cPanel. Now my website is running well. I have created my email on cPanel and i am using webmail to access my email account.
But want to transfer old email messages from PLESK to cPanel. I have searched and found that email messages are stored on PLESK on this location:
# /var/qmail/
Is there any way to transfer email email messages from PLESK to cPanel?
Thanks in advance for any replies.
You can fetch mail from your PLESK server and have it imported into cPanel.
Simply login to your cPanel
Access your webmail and access Horde
Once logged in, on the left hand side, click OPTIONS then Mail
On the center of the screen under “Message Options” click “Fetch Mail”
Create a new account, enter your details from your email account located on your PLESK server (for the incoming/outgoing servers, use your PLESK server hostname)
Email will then begin to be downloaded into your cPanel inbox.
That should do the trick :)
Horde doesn't have the Fetch Mail option anymore.
So, the easiest solution is manual transfer using Outlook or Thunderbird.
How to move email from any server into cPanel use an IMAP client like Microsoft Outlook or Thunderbird?
First, configure each new email account on cPanel (including any sub-folders). Next, configure your IMAP client (Outlook or Thunderbird) with each email account on each server.
One account for the old account (if it is not already there) and one account for the new account created with cPanel.
You may find it easier to use the actual IP addresses of each respective server to avoid name resolution issues.
Replace example.com with IP address (use ping example.com on your CMD console to find out the IP of the old server)
After that, you just need to drag-and-drop the old messages from the old account into the new account on Outlook or Thunderbird and delete the old account.
When finishing with all accounts, change your domain DNS to the new cPanel hosting server and you're done.
It will be downtime?
Depends on the number of email boxes you have to transfer and on other websites or applications you have to move from the old domain name. Normally it should work fast enough to not have any problems but I suggest doing this after working hours.
I'll try to be clearest as possible as I think this is not a usual situation. If you need more details, please say it.
I work on a company that has an Exchange Server. They provide a laptop which is on company domain and I can connect in Outlook just fine with my company e-mail. If I go home with my company laptop I can connect via VPN to company domain and connect to Outlook just fine as well.
We have a webmail which we can use in ANY untrusted computer on browser, something like webmail.mycompany.com and I just need to put my username and password to connect.
I also have an Android smartphone which is not on domain as well and I can configure it to connect to my company Exchange mail.
However I work on a remote server which is not on company domain (I can't change the domain on the remote server) and I'm trying to configure Outlook on the remote server unsuccessfully...
I'm very confused and wondering:
If I can connect via VPN to my company Exchange mail on Outlook anywhere as long as I have internet access on my company laptop
I can connect to my company Exchange mail on a webmail on browser on any computer (not on company domain) providing username and password.
I can connect to my company Exchange mail on my Android smartphone (not on company domain) by providing the Exchange mail server, username, domain and password.
Question: Is it possible to connect to Outlook in a different domain on a remote server with the information I have?
Thank you!
If an Exchange server is published correctly with ActiveSync enabled, then an device that supports ActiveSync should be able to connect to it. I am contracted out to 4 partner organisations during the week, 1 orgs email is Exchange Online, the others are local exchanges, one each of 2007, 2010, 2013.
I can easily hook up my email accounts to each of these from my phones, outlook 2010 at home (not connected to the domain or VPN) and outlook 2013 in the office (that is domain connected). (For 2 of these orgs my first job was to correctly publish their exchange farm for their employees)
You mentioned a VPN tunnel, if you have to establish a VPN to connect to the exchange then it sounds like it has not been correctly published externally, possibly by design.
The first thing you should do is talk to your Exchange Admin and ask them to confirm or publish the Autodiscover and ActiveSync related services for the exchange you wish to connect to externally, it's quite secure by default and has been designed to be used in this way so you shouldn't get much resistance on this front.
If you are the admin, or just playing along at home, then your next stop should be the Microsoft Connectivity Analyzer https://testconnectivity.microsoft.com , previously testexchangeconnectivity.com... that uses the same protocols that outlook and mobile devices use to connect to MS Exchange, this includes Exchange Online.
If the connectivity analyzer can connect, but your client can't then download the client analyzer from the "client" tab in the connectivity analyzer site. The error prompts are really informative and help to improve your understanding of how the Exchange platform works
Outlook 2010 can only add one domain connected Exchange service at a time, but it can have many activeSync compatible services connected no worries at all. Follow the test results on the connectivity analyzer site described above for guidance, the two most common issues that I come across are:
You primary email alias may not match the autodiscover service. For instance user#email.com might belong to an exchange that is published as 'electronicemail.com' In this case you need to make sure you connect to the exchange service as 'user#electronicemail.com' your default replay to address as configured in exchange will still work as user#email.com, but outlook doesn't know about these details untile after it has established a connection to the exchange server via the autodiscover service.
The other common issue is that the autodiscover service is not contactable externally or does not resolve correctly when you are external. (this happens a lot with Small Business Server and Essential Business server) In these cases you can sometimes make some quick edits to your c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file to direct outlook to the right server IPaddress to configure the account. If you add a hosts entry for autodiscover.yourEmailDomainName.whateveritis into your hosts file this can often get around issues caused by the organisations public DNS not being configured for exchange.
Note that the hosts solution above can work in many instances for both of these issues
I am looking for a little direction to my problem. Short story, I have a website hosted on a web server. I pay a yearly subscription. This year I am planning on taking it off and hosting it internally. I already backed up, restored, and installed all necessary components (on Windows BTW with IIS, PHP, and MySQL). The site works great internal and by IP address externally through a firewall. (IP address for now until my web host subscription expires, then I will forward and register DNS).
But now this is my problem, my website has email functionality which works on my providers server. I want to install a local mail server for my website that will wind up sending and receiving emails through my website. I am lost here. No sure which path I should take. I have installed and used Exchange 2003 in the past just for internal domains, nothing for internet AND internet.
Anyone with ideas, links, suggestions? I see that IIS does support SMTP virtual servers, is this a possible route? If so, what about POP3 or IMAP (incoming) server solutions?
Thanks
Edit
---Update On Situation---
So far I have configured a local exchange server that works with my local webserver. I then created a CNAME in my web host DNS zone for my IP address. I created a simple subdomain for my site redirected to my home web server. Everything works great, internal email through Exchange 2003 from website on IIS, redirected DNS names, almost there. Now I just need to create Internet Mail functionality in Exchange. Went through the Exchanges wizard to "open system" for Internet mail, created new SMTP connector and ....nothing for external mail test. Failed! Thought everything was configured properly. I also tried to open all ports on firewall, 25 and 110.
I'd recommend using something like PostMarkApp to send transactional email from the website, and use hosted email (Google Apps for Domains) for your email. Its a pain to run a real mail server.
Link to Exchange Internet mail SMTP connector configuration:
Configure Exchange Internet Mail SMTP Connector
Well, I did figure it out. I was on the right path and everything was working but I just configured my client wrong and my ISp blocked port 25, duh. CHanged port to unused 366. But here is a little tip for anyone that may need to figure this out in the future.
1)Setup install IIS with default SMTP and NNTP virtual servers.
2)Install Exchange into organization. Internal naming convention doesn't really make a difference between internal to externally if you are behind a firewall. Basically this means you don't have to create a seperate zone in DNS if using this for a seperate domain hosted elsewhere. Hope this didn't confuse anyone.
3)Right click on server name in Exchange System Manager and go to Internet Mail Wizard
4)If you want your clients to hold a different domain email address than your internal you can setup in exchange through
Exchange System Manager >> Recipients >> Recipient Policies
Then add a Masquerade in Default SMTP Virtual Server
5)Have a gmail Internet SMTP connector set to smtp.gmail.com as smart host with a gmail email account settings and TLS checked
6)Default SMTP VS set with outbound port 587 and TLS checked
If you need to change SMTP ports too, don't forget to change not just firewall but also inside Exchange.