Re: make all outgoing emails leave through designated Exchange server

You didn't say how you have SMTP Connectors set up. Set up an SMTP
Connector on the good server if you haven't already and direct that all mail
go out via its SMTP virtual server.
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Ed Crowley
Celebrating a decade of Exchange peer support


"Johnny Fugazzi" <removethis-abillmeier@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have 2 exchange servers, and they are in different locations. The
>exchange servers are part of the same domain, and the same, initial,
>routing group.
>
> Internet email can be sent from accounts hosted on the first exchange box,
> but all internet mail sent from mailboxes hosted on the second exchange
> box bounce.
> The error seems to indicated that the ISP that the second exchange box
> connects to is blocking smtp traffic, or is failing a reverse lookup.
>
> email accounts on both exchange boxes use the same domain name.
>
> Is there a way to configure the exchange on the second box to route all
> internet email down to the first server (we are connected via VPN), and
> then have the first box send it out via smtp. The MX record of the the
> domainname points back to the first exchange box.
>
>
> I have tried adjusting the smtp connector and the smtp virtual server to
> point to the first server as a smarthost, but this resulted in no mail
> making it out to the internet but stacking up in the queue instead.
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