With VMWare or Microsoft Virtual Server you can emulate fairly complex networks.
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glenn Corbett Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 1:07 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Setting up Exchange lab Thanks Ed. That is the plan, however emulating the "wider internet" solely within the lab environment was the thing I was struggling with. I've since been told that Postfix can be configured to pretend to be every external domain on the internet to receive messages from the lab, and push messages back into the lab so we can load messages up with virii, spam etc. Glenn -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Crowley [MVP] Sent: Thursday, 25 November 2004 3:17 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Setting up Exchange lab In a lab, you can do all this with one machine and VMWare or Microsoft Virtual Server. Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glenn Corbett Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 2:01 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Setting up Exchange lab (this may be considered off-topic, my apologies in advance) All, We are in the process of designing our new Exchange lab, and will be testing additional products such as content / virus scanning products (yes, we do run some currently). One suggestion is that we have an external server outside the LAB environment that "pretends" to be an external smarthost, and can be used to bounce messages off, and to generate spam, or virus-carrying emails. Has anyone set up such a configuration before, and could provide any suggestions ? My current thinking is to use something like sendmail or another Linux / Unix based product (not sure what's good or what isn't), or to use a standalone Windows SMTP server. I'm presuming we would need to also support POP3 / IMAP so we can have clients sending mail which is then routed into the exchange environment. I would prefer not to look at another exchange organisation, simply due to the additional hardware and infrastructure requirements (additional forest etc), unless this is the easiest way. Any input would be most appreciated. Thanks Glenn _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
