Re: Setting up Exchange 2003 to work with a SendMail gateway
- From: "Brantley Allen" <pounds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:09:03 -0700
--
Brantley Allen
System Administrator
Pounds Photographic Labs
"Al Mulnick" wrote:
> Sorry, you want to have sendmail send all mail to Exchange?
> If so, you just need to configure Sendmail to use Exchange as a smarthost
> else configure all of the aliases appropriately.
>
> I'd opt for the aliases as it's easier to manage. Just because you don't do
> them one at a time it's not a big deal but it is the lowest impact in my
> opinion because you're changing a feature normally associated with sendmail
> administration vs. changing the routing which is done far less frequently.
>
> You can find a lot of answers to sendmail questions at www.sendmail.org if
> you need to.
>
>
>
> "Brantley Allen" <pounds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:A136B18E-4B15-43FE-86E7-05E28DD6014B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
> > "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
> >> 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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