Hi,

I'm new to Exchange Server 2013. I've started a POC on the product by setting up a Lab environment with one 1 AD server and 1 Exchange server (Both Windows 2012 R2). As this is a POC I just need the internal email communication. I don't want the mails to go over the internet. 

I've completed the installation part and just started to configure Send/Receive connectors and got stuck with the question whether the connectors are required or not.

Could someone please help me out in configuring internal email setup for Exchange 2013 lab setup.

Regards,

Nithin

Hi 

Did you install Exchange 2013 SP1 on server 2012 R2?

Create 2 accounts and send mails, it should work. You not routing to the internet from your lab or are you?

I've installed Exchange 2013 SP1 on Server 2012 and I don't want the emails to go via internet. Infact the lab setup is isolated.

Do I need to create Send/Receive connectors ? Any helpful document for the internal email setup ?

Hi,

You don't need to create Send Connector for this. For internal testing you can just configure Internal DNS Lookups by logging in to EAC > Servers >DNS Lookups. Here you have to just enter the Ip of your DNS Server. This will allow you to send the emails for internal users.

Regards,
Santhosh.
www.jijitechnologies.com

• Marked as answer by Nithin R Tuesday, June 10, 2014 9:52 AM
• Unmarked as answer by Nithin R Tuesday, June 10, 2014 12:20 PM
• Proposed as answer by Lincoln China 4 hours 24 minutes ago

Hi Nithin,

You dont need to receive/send connector for internal messaging. Cause when you send a mail message to someone it will be copied in Mailbox Database. 

Please check your exchange server's primary DNS address. It will be your AD's ip address.

Regards,

Enis.

• Marked as answer by Nithin R Tuesday, June 10, 2014 9:52 AM

Hi,

You need not to configure send/receive connectors for internal email.

The following article for your reference:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us//library/aa996395(v=exchg.150).aspx

Default Receive connectors created during setup

Thanks for your answer. It works fine.