Correct SMTP setting...?

[Christo]

We are using Wingate 5.2.3 Build 901

Our ISP hosts our external domain/email but we run an internal Exchange server. Currently we use Outlook 2002 at the desktop and point the POP and SMTP to the wingate (192.168.2.1) machine. We are being banned by more and more ISP's for not sending through our ISP's smtp connection...our ISP has said to set the Outlook SMTP to their smtp server (smtp.ispname.net)...this works for a few workstations...but fails on the majority of the others. After reading other SMTP posts it appears the 'normal' setting is to point to the wingate machine.

So...what is the correct way?....and am I going to be 'required' to update to the latest version of Wingate to accomplish this?

[adrien]

Hi

You should be able to do that with WinGate 5.2.3, simply set delivery to deliver all mail to the gateway, being your ISP.

If your clients are using NAT to connect THROUGH wingate to an SMTP server, then you could either point them to connect TO WinGate, or turn on connection interception in WinGate's SMTP server.

You could also upgrade to 6.0.3, which has much more flexibility in terms of mail configuration. Your WinGate 5.x license will work in WinGate 6.0, but you won't get all the new mail features. You will get most of them though, and only if you need POP3 retrieval or the Email Queue panel would you need to upgrade. I would try a trial first to see if you would mind which features you have.

Adrien