I'm looking at a SP 2010 farm that is pointing to an SMTP server not on the server in the Central Admin Outgoing email settings, and there is no SMTP server on either of the WFE's.

I'm trying to get incoming email to work after enabling it in Central Admin and on the list I want to use it on, and while the email account is not a real email account for my email enabled list, it appears to be a recognized email address when I type it into the To line in an outlook message, however; the email returns a delivery failure when I send it. I suspect that this is because I have no SMTP server running on the WFE. Is this likely the cause, and will there be a conflict if I install an SMTP server on one of the WFE's? Also, how will this work since the outgoing email settings are pointing to an SMTP server not in the farm?

• Edited by techieplaya 9 hours 18 minutes ago