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PLEASE NOTE, THIS IS VERY OLD ARCHIVE INFORMATION AND MAY NOT FUNCTION ON NEW SERVERS

Configuring Your Exchange Server for Mail-On-Demand

1. Configure your RAS/DUN
   1. You will need an entry in the phonebook that makes an automatic connection to your local ISP at the intervals you specify.
   2. You need a TCPIP hostname and domain configured in Control Panel/Networks/TCPIP

2. Configure the Exchange SMTP service
   For Exchange Server 5.0 this will be the Internet Mail Service. This should be pointed to the SMTP server for your Virtual Server (smtp.yourdomain.name).

3. If necessary, configure the SMTP Addresses for your users
   You can globally configure this using the Site Addressing configuration page, or you can use Directory Import to configure individual addresses. This would only be necessary in the event you had multiple users in your "Intranet" that had a different Virtual Server.

4. Configure the server to tell the mail server to dequeue mail
   You will need to configure your Exchange Server to run the "etrn" command. This command tells the Virtual Server to attempt to resend your queued mail. A script written by Simpler Web Inc. will help set up your Exchange Server to do this.

   http://www.swinc.com/files/dequeue.exe

   In essence, you're connecting to your SMTP port and telling the mail server you want to dequeue your mail. For those people not using Exchange Server, you could write your own script. Here is an example Unix shell script that would do the same (substitute your domain name for my-domain.com).

   #!/bin/sh
   # I got this from:
   # http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_smtp.htm
   # Send ETRN command to sendmail 8.8.x
   # written by Andy Rabagliati <andyr@wizzy.com>
   #
   telnet mail.my-domain.com smtp <<SMTP_EOF
   ETRN my-domain.com
   QUIT
   SMTP_EOF
   #
   # End of Shell script
   #
   Or alternately
   #!/bin/sh
   OURSITE=exchange.isp.com
   MAILSERVER=mail.sfpsi.com
   TELNET=/usr/bin/telnet
   PORT=25
   echo "etrn $OURSITE" |$TELNET $MAILSERVER $PORT
   exit 0
   

   ISP Configuration

   You must have a dedicated IP address for the Exchange Server dial-up solution to work. There is no other alternative to this (currently). You must do one of the following.
   • Purchase a dedicated modem at your ISP's modem bank that only you connect to and that is assigned your dedicated IP address
   • Your ISP has the ability to detect when you dial in and can assign that dial-in your dedicated IP number.

   The second thing your ISP must do for you is map a domain name to that dedicated IP address. For example, if your local Internet Service Provider has a domain name "my-isp. com" and they were going to give you an IP address of 222.222.222.222, you want them to map 222.222.222.222 to a unique instance of my-isp.com. As an example:

   exchange.myisp.com mapped to 222.222.222.222

   Here is an example DNS entry for this:

   @         IN SOA  ns1.my-isp.com. hostmaster.my-isp.com. (
                     1997072802   ; Serial number
                     86400        ; Refresh
                     7200         ; Retry
                     2592000      ; Expire
                     172800 )     ; Minimum TTL
   
             NS      NS1.MY-ISP.COM.
             NS      NS2.MY-ISP.COM.
   
             A       222.222.222.1
             MX 10   my-isp.com
   exchange  A       222.222.222.222
   

   Another alternative would be to use your Virtual Server domain name in the zone file above instead of the name "exchange". For example if I had a Virtual Server and my domain name for the Virtual Server was mycompany.com I might have my ISP set up their DNS zone to point to

   mycompany  A   222.222.222.222
   

   Now, all mail sent to mycompany.my-isp.com would resolve to the dedicated IP address 222.222.222.222

   This is important, you must have a dedicated IP address (one that is uniquely assigned to your Exchange Server), and you must have a domain name pointing to that IP address for the Mail-On-Demand solution to work.

   Virtual Server Configuration

   Finally, you must Configure Your Virtual Server for Mail-On-Demand.

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   PLEASE NOTE, THIS IS OLD ARCHIVE INFORMATION AND MAY NOT FUNCTION ON NEW SERVERS

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