Re-routing mail for certain domains?
Just a silly one here really. Currently using a quiet period in work to have a mess about with Exchange 2000. Our internet server fires all incoming SMTP mail to our Exchange 5.5 server. We have a couple of redundant domain names which I wanted to use for testing purposes so how can I route SMTP mail for just those domains from our Ex 5.5 box to my test Ex 2000 box? I thought this would be done through the re-route options on the IMS but I can't seem to get it to work. If for example I select mail coming into abc.com to be rerouted to test.com all the Ex 5.5 box seems to do is strip abc.com from the e-mail address and replace with test.com and then obviously not find the recipient. The mails are never reaching my Ex 2000 box. I think this is obviously down to my lack of understanding of how SMTP and DNS work but any little pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, James. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Re-routing mail for certain domains?
Try out similar thing as what you did in 5.5. In this case can bypass DNS. Check Q190710. The article mentioned two places to configure, the Routing tab and Connections tab. Somehow for my case I need to configure both before it works. For both setting I used IP address instead of the hostname. Ong LB -Original Message- From: James Gosnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 12:50 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re-routing mail for certain domains? Just a silly one here really. Currently using a quiet period in work to have a mess about with Exchange 2000. Our internet server fires all incoming SMTP mail to our Exchange 5.5 server. We have a couple of redundant domain names which I wanted to use for testing purposes so how can I route SMTP mail for just those domains from our Ex 5.5 box to my test Ex 2000 box? I thought this would be done through the re-route options on the IMS but I can't seem to get it to work. If for example I select mail coming into abc.com to be rerouted to test.com all the Ex 5.5 box seems to do is strip abc.com from the e-mail address and replace with test.com and then obviously not find the recipient. The mails are never reaching my Ex 2000 box. I think this is obviously down to my lack of understanding of how SMTP and DNS work but any little pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, James. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Re-routing mail for certain domains?
Thanks Ong, that was just what I was looking for and it did the job!! I can now route mail that arrives at our 5.5 box for a certain domain to another internal Exchange 2000 box. Still have a slight issue with sending mail from recipients from the 2000 box to recipients on the 5.5 box but I'm sure I'll work it out. Thanks again. James. > Try out similar thing as what you did in 5.5. > In this case can bypass DNS. Check Q190710. > The article mentioned two places to configure, > the Routing tab and Connections tab. Somehow > for my case I need to configure both before > it works. For both setting I used IP address > instead of the hostname. > > Ong LB > > -Original Message- > From: James Gosnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 12:50 AM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Re-routing mail for certain domains? > > > Just a silly one here really. Currently using a quiet period in work to > have a mess about with Exchange 2000. Our internet server fires all > incoming SMTP mail to our Exchange 5.5 server. We have a couple of > redundant domain names which I wanted to use for testing purposes so how > can I route SMTP mail for just those domains from our Ex 5.5 box to my > test Ex 2000 box? > > I thought this would be done through the re-route options on the IMS but I > can't seem to get it to work. > > If for example I select mail coming into abc.com to be rerouted to > test.com all the Ex 5.5 box seems to do is strip abc.com from the e-mail > address and replace with test.com and then obviously not find the > recipient. The mails are never reaching my Ex 2000 box. > > I think this is obviously down to my lack of understanding of how SMTP and > DNS work but any little pointers would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, James. > > List Charter and FAQ at: > http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
