exchange routing issue

[smikes19]

Hi,
I have an external sendmail relay that routes mail to an exchange box as hostname.domain.com. I had to enable the relay permissions in exchange to allow this mail to be accepted. This works ok....but only for users on the local exchange box. It will not send the mail out to another exchange server if thats where the user exists.

Is there any way around this?

 

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You have a send mail relay sending to a Bridgehead server that is obviously relying on DNS to handle mail from the internet. If you're win2k/e2k network is in native mode, then only the relays to the outside need to have dns records, all other routing is done via smtp internally with routing groups. You need to make sure that:

1) your bridgehead that takes mail from external relay can route to the correct routing group internally. So if john.doe is on EXCBRD01(the server that takes mail from the outside) that is in the SFO routing group and he can get mail, but sally.doe is in ATL but there is no routing group connection between SFO and ATL then mail that comes in for sally will hit the bridgehead and never be delievered because it doesnt know about the other exchange server in another part of the country. You need to set up routing groups.

 

[Guest_imported]

You have a send mail relay sending to a Bridgehead server that is obviously relying on DNS to handle mail from the internet. If you're win2k/e2k network is in native mode, then only the relays to the outside need to have dns records, all other routing is done via smtp internally with routing groups. You need to make sure that:

1) your bridgehead that takes mail from external relay can route to the correct routing group internally. So if john.doe is on EXCBRD01(the server that takes mail from the outside) that is in the SFO routing group and he can get mail, but sally.doe is in ATL but there is no routing group connection between SFO and ATL then mail that comes in for sally will hit the bridgehead and never be delievered because it doesnt know about the other exchange server in another part of the country. You need to set up routing groups.

 

[Guest_imported]

You have a send mail relay sending to a Bridgehead server that is obviously relying on DNS to handle mail from the internet. If you're win2k/e2k network is in native mode, then only the relays to the outside need to have dns records, all other routing is done via smtp internally with routing groups. You need to make sure that:

1) your bridgehead that takes mail from external relay can route to the correct routing group internally. So if john.doe is on EXCBRD01(the server that takes mail from the outside) that is in the SFO routing group and he can get mail, but sally.doe is in ATL but there is no routing group connection between SFO and ATL then mail that comes in for sally will hit the bridgehead and never be delievered because it doesnt know about the other exchange server in another part of the country. You need to set up routing groups.

 

[Guest_imported]

You have a send mail relay sending to a Bridgehead server that is obviously relying on DNS to handle mail from the internet. If you're win2k/e2k network is in native mode, then only the relays to the outside need to have dns records, all other routing is done via smtp internally with routing groups. You need to make sure that:

1) your bridgehead that takes mail from external relay can route to the correct routing group internally. So if john.doe is on EXCBRD01(the server that takes mail from the outside) that is in the SFO routing group and he can get mail, but sally.doe is in ATL but there is no routing group connection between SFO and ATL then mail that comes in for sally will hit the bridgehead and never be delievered because it doesnt know about the other exchange server in another part of the country. You need to set up routing groups.