Routing Email to Sharepoint

I'm struggling to get sharepoint setup to accept emails. I think that my
problem is just in the way I'm doing the MX Record, but here it is....

IIS, Sharepoint, and SQL are all on one server. IIS is running SMTP service
with a specific IP address off of that server (not the main one associated
with the server, but one I added in advanced TCP/IP to the NIC).

In the "Default SMTP Virtual Server" properties, under "Deliver",
"Advanced", it does show <server>.<domain>.com as the fully qualified domain
name. And the only "domain" listed under it is the same name.

I believe I have relay settings for the IIS SMTP server set properly. They
are set exactly as my exchange server, granting access to all of my 10.
subnets (picture attached).

In Sharepoint Central Admin, Operations... Incoming e-mail settings, I have
enabled, with the e-mail server display address as
mylist@INTRANET.<domain>.com.

So in DNS... This is where I'm weakest and think my problem is here.
Instructions
(http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l....aspx#sectionD) seem to
be telling me to add an MX record under Forward Lookup Zones, under the
domain that contains the server in question. I do NOT have a subdomain
defined for the particular sharepoint / IIS server. Instructions don't say
to do so, and experimenting has not provided results.

I've tried MX Record "INTRANET" with FQDN of <server>.<domain>.com. Also
tried MX Record <server name>, with FQDN <server>.<domain>.com. I've also
tried both MX Record names (Intranet & <server name>) with FQDN 10.0.1.66
which is the specific IP I've assigned to the SMTP Virtual Server. In all
cases, test emails sent from my outlook to "testemail@intranet.<domain>.com"
fail with "The destination server for this recipient could not be found in
Domain name Service (DNS)". That email address is one that is attached to a
test document library I made.

The only other thing I see in the instructions that I've done nothing with
is the exchange server itself. It mentions adding an SMTP Connector in MS
Exchange. The relay setup on the Exchange SMTP protocol is exactly the same
as what is setup on the IIS SMTP VS (picture attached). I can't see what I
would need to do in Exchange... seems like DNS would do the routing and
exchange just needs to try and send it out.

Hope I haven't lost everyone's interest with this large post. I hate
posting quesitons that beg more questions.

Thanks for any direction offered!
Tim

Figured it out.

1: Needed an A record to go along with my MX record.

2: Figured out how to add an SMTP Connector in Exchange box.

3: Found at the very end of the technet document in my post below that I
have to setup an alias domain in my SMTP server.

Now email is flowing.

"Tim Miller" <> wrote in message
news:...
> I'm struggling to get sharepoint setup to accept emails. I think that my
> problem is just in the way I'm doing the MX Record, but here it is....
>
> IIS, Sharepoint, and SQL are all on one server. IIS is running SMTP
> service with a specific IP address off of that server (not the main one
> associated with the server, but one I added in advanced TCP/IP to the
> NIC).
>
> In the "Default SMTP Virtual Server" properties, under "Deliver",
> "Advanced", it does show <server>.<domain>.com as the fully qualified
> domain name. And the only "domain" listed under it is the same name.
>
> I believe I have relay settings for the IIS SMTP server set properly.
> They are set exactly as my exchange server, granting access to all of my
> 10. subnets (picture attached).
>
> In Sharepoint Central Admin, Operations... Incoming e-mail settings, I
> have enabled, with the e-mail server display address as
> mylist@INTRANET.<domain>.com.
>
> So in DNS... This is where I'm weakest and think my problem is here.
> Instructions
> (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l....aspx#sectionD) seem
> to be telling me to add an MX record under Forward Lookup Zones, under the
> domain that contains the server in question. I do NOT have a subdomain
> defined for the particular sharepoint / IIS server. Instructions don't
> say to do so, and experimenting has not provided results.
>
> I've tried MX Record "INTRANET" with FQDN of <server>.<domain>.com. Also
> tried MX Record <server name>, with FQDN <server>.<domain>.com. I've also
> tried both MX Record names (Intranet & <server name>) with FQDN 10.0.1.66
> which is the specific IP I've assigned to the SMTP Virtual Server. In
> all cases, test emails sent from my outlook to
> "testemail@intranet.<domain>.com" fail with "The destination server for
> this recipient could not be found in Domain name Service (DNS)". That
> email address is one that is attached to a test document library I made.
>
> The only other thing I see in the instructions that I've done nothing with
> is the exchange server itself. It mentions adding an SMTP Connector in MS
> Exchange. The relay setup on the Exchange SMTP protocol is exactly the
> same as what is setup on the IIS SMTP VS (picture attached). I can't see
> what I would need to do in Exchange... seems like DNS would do the routing
> and exchange just needs to try and send it out.
>
> Hope I haven't lost everyone's interest with this large post. I hate
> posting quesitons that beg more questions.
>
> Thanks for any direction offered!
> Tim
>