Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 Administrator's Companion

Handling Internet E-Mail

One task that you need to perform is the configuration of an SMTP connector in order to handle Internet e-mail. However, before you learn about this topic, you need to understand how the introduction of Exchange Server 2007 into your environment can affect Internet mail flow.

Before you install Exchange Server 2007 into your organization, Internet mail flow is pretty simple, at least for small- and medium-sized organizations that have not created SMTP connectors in the organization. All Internet mail is directed through the SMTP virtual server, which uses its own DNS capabilities to look up the names of remote servers. Of course, should you install an SMTP connector into the legacy Exchange organization to handle Internet ...