Tim’s Network Corner

Now you have finished the installation of VmWare Server, and can connect with the VmWare Console to the machine to setup a virtual machine.
Install Windows 2003 and Exchange 2003.

Some tips if you are a home user like me:

• If your IP is known to be a dynamic one, do not send e-mail directly to others. Relay your mail through your ISP’s mail server which is probably not dynamic. This can prevent that your mail will be classified as spam by others.
• If you do not use the same domain in Exchange as your FQDN ( fully Qualified Domain Name ), you should masquerade all e-mail as your FQDN. This will also save you a lot of spam points, because spamfilters tend to lookup the server FQDN when it connects to them. If the FQDN of the connecting server does not exist in DNS, you probably get more spam points.

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Now my project is finished, and I nolonger have something to do, I am going to explain how I set up my new server.

The Ingredients for today are:

To give you an impression of the whole picture I created a drawing that reflects the situation:

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