Re: Setting up Exchange 2003 to work with a SendMail gateway
- From: "Brantley Allen" <pounds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:21:08 -0700
"Al Mulnick" wrote:
> Probably the hardest part will be reconfiguring the user agents to pick up
> mail only at the Exchange server. You'll also need to figure out what is
> acceptable to you regarding picking up mail while external to your network
> (currently they get it via Sendmail POP/IMAP I assume) although RPC/HTTP is
> a nice feature to take advantage of.
>
> As for mail routing that's pretty easy. You want a smart relay
> configuration.
> Exchange: Add a SMTP address to your users (recipient policy + any addresses
> that are unique will have to be manually dealt with) for domain.com and
> apply it to all users. Make it a primary address type and let Exchange know
> your Exchange server is authoritative for that domain (it's a checkbox. See
> the help files for more information). Don't remove the int.domain.com but
> just make it a secondary address.
>
> Inbound: You'll need to tell Sendmail (which version?) to deliver the mail
> it receives to your Exchange server vs. local mailboxes. Depending on
> version and your exact requirements, you may choose different ways of doing
> this. You may want to just forward all mail that Sendmail receives that is
> destined for your domain to your Exchange server. I don't see a reason to
> rewrite any addresses based on your information, but that's possible.
>
This is what information I can't seem to find anywhere. Where can I find
information on how to do this?
> Outbound: route all mail from Exchange to your sendmail servers for
> delivery. In Exchange, you'll create a connector and configure smart host
> delivery. There are KB articles on this as well as information in the help
> files.
>
> Is that what you're after? Or did I miss something?
>
>
>
> "Alexey Aksyonenko" <AlexeyAksyonenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> message news:D838F153-D943-4CCA-A8C7-D4BF2B9F8B2F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Actually, maybe I am going the wrong way about explaining what I need.
> > :-)
> > What I have now are 2 SendMail servers. Each user has 2 mailboxes - one
> > per
> > server. One server is internal, with no access to the outside world. The
> > other is external, and does not see inside the network. Everyone has 2
> > e-mail addresses - user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx and user@xxxxxxxxxx, respectively.
> > This is a pain in the rear. I want to kill 2 birds with one stone. I
> > want
> > the benefits of an Exchange server internally. I also want to have only
> > one
> > mailbox per user - as far as the user is concerned - user@xxxxxxxxxxx I
> > want
> > that box to be on Exchange, and all e-mails sent from one network user to
> > another are to remain on exchange. All e-mail to/from the outside world
> > is
> > to be routed through the SendMail server, but still with the same mailbox
> > name - user@xxxxxxxxxxx My users already have network logins, of course,
> > with the active directory domain of "int.domain.com". What I do NOT want
> > to
> > do is have to re-structure my entire network to accomodate this. I want
> > the
> > users to still log into the same domain when they log into the network,
> > but
> > log into maybe a "virtual" domain within Exchange. How do I set this up?
> > --
> > Alexey Aksyonenko
> > Director of IT (MCP, MCDBA)
> > COA Network
> > www.coanetwork.com
> >
> >
> > "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> In news:40CFB0DF-8226-47DD-BFDD-5C9FBD25261C@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> >> Alexey Aksyonenko <AlexeyAksyonenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
> >> > But if I specify * for address space, wouldn't that forward ALL the
> >> > correspondence to SendMail, including the intra-domain messages that
> >> > I want to keep on Exchange?
> >> >
> >>
> >> No, if you put * in the address space in the connector, only
> >> Internet-bound
> >> mail will go out that way....
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> In news:628032CA-110C-48D6-AA14-B59F6A105517@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> >> >> Alexey Aksyonenko <AlexeyAksyonenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
> >> >>> Rather new to Exchange administration. I want to set up an Exchange
> >> >>> 2003 server internally, with a Linux SendMail server as a gateway to
> >> >>> the outside wold. Basically, I want all the e-mail that is being
> >> >>> sent within my domain to remain on Exchange, but all mail going out
> >> >>> to outside world to be routed to the SendMail, and also all incoming
> >> >>> mail will be forwarded from SendMail to Exchange. There are a
> >> >>> number of posts on this in Google Groups, but they mostly deal with
> >> >>> the SendMail configuration, whereas I need to know the Exchange end
> >> >>> of it. Can anyone help? (My Exchange server is already installed
> >> >>> and operational by itself.)
> >> >>
> >> >> Set up an SMTP connector for outbound internet mail & specify the
> >> >> sendmail server as the smarthost - use * as the address space.
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>
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