Using MailHop Outbound with Exchange 2010

This document describes how to configure Microsoft Exchange 2010 to work with MailHop® Outbound.

Exchange Management Console

This tutorial will show you how to set up MailHop Outbound as a send connector in Exchange 2010 via the Exchange Management Console. In order to perform these steps, you will need the Organization Management permission.

First, open your Exchange Management Console and go to the the Hub Transport section of the Organizational Configuration. Once here, select the Send Connectors tab to view any current connectors. In this example, we have no existing connectors. Click the New Send Connecter link to the right to start the New Send Connector Wizard.

In the New Send Connector Wizard's "Introduction" page, enter "MailHop Outbound" in the Name field. Choose Custom under the "Select the intended use for this Send connector" drop-down menu. Click the Next button.

On the "Address Space" page, click on the arrow beside the Add button, and choose the "SMTP Address Space..." option.

To use MailHop Outbound for all outgoing mail, enter an asterisk (*) in the Address field on the "SMTP Address Space" screen. (If you only want your server to use MailHop Outbound when sending to specifics addresses, list those domains in the address space field instead.) Click OK when finished.

Select your new address space in the list and click the Next button to continue.

On the "Network settings" page, under "Select how to send mail with this connector", choose "Route mail through the following smart hosts", then click on the "Add..." button.

In the "Add smart host" screen, choose "Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN)" and enter outbound.mailhop.org in the field. Click OK to continue.

Select outbound.mailhop.org in the Smart Host list, and ensure "Use the External DNS Lookup settings on the transport server" is checked. Click Next to continue.

On the "Configure smart host authentication settings" page, choose Basic Authentication. Enter your DynDNS.com username and password. Optionally, you may enable "Basic Authentication over TLS". Click Next to continue.

On the "Source Server" page, you may specify which servers can use this connector. In this example, we have only one server, so we will select it and click Next to continue.

On the "New Connector" page, review your settings for the connector before it is created. If there are no issues, click the New button to create the connector.

Your server is now configured to deliver outgoing mail through MailHop Outbound.

Enable Logging

This final step is optional, but it is highly recommended to enable logging on your connector. This is useful for troubleshooting outgoing mail issues when using MailHop Outbound.

On the Send Connectors tab on your Exchange Management Console, select the MailHop Outbound connector, then click on the Properties option on the right.

On the MailHop Outbound Properties window, change the drop down menu for "Protocol logging level" to Verbose. Click Apply to enable logging, and then OK to close the window.

Exchange Management Shell

This quick guide will show you how to use the shell to add MailHop Outbound as a connector. You will need the Organization Management permission to perform these steps.

First, go to your Windows Start menu and open the shell.

When using MailHop Outbound, you will need to authenticate with the Outbound servers in order to send mail. To do so, create a Credential object using the Get-Credential cmdlet. We will use $MyCredentials as the object in this example.

$MyCredentials = Get-Credential

Once the cmdlet is entered, a login box will appear:

Enter your DynDNS.com user name and password, then click OK. Next, you will need to create the connector with the New-SendConnector cmdlet. The command is as follows (entered on a single line):

New-SendConnector -Name "MailHop Outbound"
   -AddressSpaces "*"
   -AuthenticationCredential $MyCredentials
   -SmartHostAuthMechanism BasicAuth
   -SmartHosts outbound.mailhop.org
   -Port 25
   -MaxMessageSize 50MB

It is important to notice that the AddressSpaces option is required; its purpose is to determine to which domains this connector will send mail. If you want MailHop Outbound to send mail for all domains, use an asterisk (*) as in our example. Otherwise, you will need to specify the domain(s) to which you want MailHop Outbound to send mail as a comma-delineated list (e.g. domain1.com,domain2.net,domain3.org) You can also change the port to one of the alternate MailHop Outbound ports listed here, such as 2525.

If you would like to use TLS encryption when sending mail, include the following option (as well as changing the port on the connector to 465 or 10465):

-RequireTLS $true

Once you enter the command, you will be presented with a list of your current send connectors.

Additional information please read the following pages: