Smart Host

Making Exchange 2003 Use A Smart Host

Start the Exchange System Manager. Navigate:

• Administrative Groups
• First Administrative Group
• Server
• $ServerName
• Protocols
• SMTP
• Default SMTP Virtual Server

Select Properties, then Advanced. You should find a Smart Host field you can populate. The notes suggest that you put a name there so that if you need to logically move the relay it will be easy to change, however if you want an IP address you should surround it in [square brackets] so that the system treats it as an IP address and not a DNS lookup.

The typically unhelpful 'Help' lies to you about the navigation; it omits the first two steps.