Re: Setup 2 email servers internal & external
From: Patrick G. (patrick_at_prgnospamsolutions.com)
Date: 02/29/04
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Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:18:15 -0500
Well it seems to me to be unlikely a well-respect web hosting provider such
as Maximum ASP would have a misconfiguration of something as simple as
IMail.
Basically it boils down to having 2 Mail servers for the same domain.
mail.domain.com - exchange server in-house MX record set to have first
priority
mail2.domain.com - IMail server at web host MX record set to second priority
If I send a mail from with one of my ASP webpages it gets sent from
someaccount@domain.com through mail.domain.com to the recipient. If that
recipient's email is something other than domain.com then all is well in the
world... but some of the actions require an email to be sent to the
recipeint who filled out the form or whatever and also a notification to a
company contact... so then IMail is sending a mail to
someone@someotherdomain.com and another to someone@domain.com and IMail is
only checking itself for the someone@domain.com user when in actuality that
user/mailbox resides on the Exchange server...
I know this seems like a goofy setup... as it is seeming that way more and
more to me.. But its also a matter of not wanting to configure these account
for the website on the Exchange server and not to open up any relaying on
Exhcange as well...
So what would my alternatives be...
"Jim Bronson" <JnM_Bronson@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Patrick G." <patrick@prgnospamsolutions.com> wrote in message
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> > We have Exchange 2003 running in our office to take care of our email.
The
> > exchange server's setup however does not allow for sending mail through
it
> > from outside. This stops me from using that as the mail server to send
the
> > mails generated by ASPEmail in some of our webpages hosted at our web
> host.
> > That is not such a big deal as I can use the IMail server they provide
to
> > send the emails. I had them setup MX records to make our Exchange
> > (mail.domain.com) the Primary MX and then mail2.domain.com (IMail sever
at
> > web host) the secondary. The problem comes when I try to send an email
via
> > ASPEmail or through the IMail webmail to any memeber of our company. So
an
> > email sent to johndoe@domain.com via a web page or IMail webmail returns
> an
> > undeliverable message to the sending account on IMail.
>
> Stop right here. What is this undeliverable message? Is it Relaying
> Denied?
>
> I would call Imail in my environment "the application mailer" as we have
> several applications that are not Exchange aware of course. Exchange will
> accept these emails (in my limited experience) if they come from a
different
> FQDN for example instead of coming from webapp@mycompany.com i send them
> from webapp@appmailer.mycompany.com (my application mailer is postfix
> running on RedHat on a P166 desktop) and this seems to work pretty good
even
> if I don't allow relaying in Exchange.
>
> In a nutshell, I suspect it's a misconfiguration of Imail and not Exchange
> that's causing it.
>
> regards,
> Jim
>
>
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