I have a situation where I need to set up a one-way peer from my IMail server to a Netscape Messaging Server. First of all, is it possible to peer with NMS?
Let's say my server has 5 user accounts and it services the abc.com domain. The NMS has 10 user accounts, 5 of which are named the same as my 5 accounts, and it services xyz.com. abc.com accounts joe, jane, jim, julie, jake xyz.com accounts joe, jane, jim, julie, jake,bill,betty,brian,bob,belinda Due to a company merger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] needs to be able to receive mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] since xyz.com is now the official domain named to be used for all email addresses. I would like to keep the abc.com mail server in place, meaning all abc.com users still send and receive mail through the abc.com mail server.So far the way to do this has been to create accounts for all abc.com users on the xyz.com mail server and set those accounts to forward to <username>@abc.com. With this config, if [EMAIL PROTECTED] sends a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], the message gets sent out of the abc.com mail server, gets delivered to the xyz.com mail server, and then gets forwarded back to the abc.com mail server for final delivery. This definitely works, but the xyz.com admin wants to get rid of this loop. The first thing I tried was to simply add a host alias of xyz.com to the abc.com mail server allowing it to accept mail for xyz.com. This works if the destination username is one of the 5 accounts on the abc.com server. With the alias in place, [EMAIL PROTECTED] can send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and jane gets the message without it having to pass through the xyz.com server. The problem with this is when joe sends to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since there is no bill account on the abc.com mail server, When joe hits the send button he gets the following error: '550 unknown user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'. Since the username is not a local account, IMail apparently stops at that point. It would be cool if IMail would then do the normal MX lookup and try to resolve the address, but I guess it doesn't work that way. Soooo, I'm thinking that setting up a one way peer would be the way to go, if it's even doable. To try it out, I added the IP address of the xyz.com mail server to the peer list on the abc.com server. I added the correct entry to the hosts file as well. My thinking was to then add the host alias of xyz.com. This way, if IMail is asked to send mail to an account that doesn't exist in its local user database, such as [EMAIL PROTECTED], instead of giving up it should try to send the message to the peer server. According to the log, it is trying to connect to the peer server but it doesn't follow through correctly. Here is a snippet showing the transaction: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ 12:20 10:51 SMTPD(007502A6) [63.XX.XX.136] connect 63.XX.XX.111 port 4741 12:20 10:51 SMTPD(007502A6) [63.XX.XX.111] EHLO workstation 12:20 10:51 SMTPD(0000056C) Authenticated [EMAIL PROTECTED], session treated as local. 12:20 10:51 SMTPD(007502A6) [63.XX.XX.111] MAIL FROM: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12:20 10:51 SMTPD(007502A6) [63.XX.XX.111] RCPT TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12:20 10:51 SMTPD(007502A6) [63.XX.XX.111] C:\IMAIL\spool\D33382a6.SMD 1264 12:20 10:51 SMTP-(00000624) processing C:\IMAIL\spool\Q33382a6.SMD 12:20 10:51 SMTP-(00000624) ERR mail.abc.com not local bill from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12:20 10:51 SMTP-(00000624) Connect 208.XX.XX.15 [208.XX.XX.15:25] (0) 12:20 10:51 SMTP-(00000624) 220 mail.xyz.com ESMTP server (Netscape Messaging Server - Version 3.5) ready Thu, 20 Dec 2001 12:51:42 -0600 12:20 10:51 SMTP-(00000624) >QUIT 12:20 10:51 SMTP-(00000624) 221 mail.xyz.com ESMTP server closing connection ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- Instead of seeing a HELO command after the 220 command, as you can see there is a QUIT. Any input on what I might be doing wrong or if there is something else I could try would be greatly appreciated. Thanks -- Chris M Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
