Hi!! I am trying to learn exchange at my house. I have only 1 machine I have a cable internet connection. The following is my scenario:- I have installed a windows 2000 server and it is the domain controller for my domain pereira.com I have installed exchange server 2000 on the same machine I have created many user in the active directory and i can send and receive mails within the users of the active directory. Now i have two doubts:- 1) Can i use my cable internet provider smtp and send mail to internet like allwyn_p23@xxxxxxxxx 2) Can i receive mails from internet, if yes pls let me know how, bcos i am a bit confused with this Thanks a lot Regards Allwyn --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search