Lanwench
Sat Oct 02 16:35:12 CDT 2004
anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Matthew Adams wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am new to exchange and I have a basic concept question
>>> that I can't seem to figure out on my own. I have my
>>> domain and email hosted on a linux server which I am not
>>> looking to change. I have Small Business Server 2003
>>> running anf would like to incorporate exchange. The
>>> install process named my system "mydomain.local". I
>>> use "mydomain.net" on the linux server. I am POPing and
>>> sending mail from exchange but it comes
>>> from "mydomain.local" and I am concerned with changing the
>>> exchange server to "mydomain.net" because I don't want to
>>> create a conflict having two boxes named "mydomain.net".
>>>
>>> I am open to suggestions...
>>
>> Modify your Exchange server's recipient policy to add mydomain.net
>> as the default - and make sure all mailboxes get stamped with the
>> correct SMTP addresses (and that they're set as the default). For
>> SMTP address formatting, presuming you want something different than
>> alias@mydomain.net, see
>>
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;285136 first.
>>
>> How are you getting the mydomain.net mail from the *nix box to your
>> Exchange server?
>>
>
> This is totally confusing...
>
> I set the recipient policy default and now I can't send
> mail out.
So in the policy, you have .local and domain.com, with domain.com as the
default?
What errors do you get when you try to send out?
How is your default virtual SMTP server configured?
>
>
> To clarify this mess...
>
> "mydomain.net" has many email accounts and is hosted on a
> linux postfix mail server. I would only like to run
> several users email accounts thru exchange. The other
> email accounts and domain info will remain on the Linux
> Box. Is this possible or am I barking up the wrong tree.
So the people accessing mail from the *nix box don't have mailboxes in
Exchange at all? It's possible, but it's messy. I think you'll want to
specify "forward all mail with unresolved recipients to host" in your
virtual SMTP server properties.
>
> I get mail from user@mydomain.local one way and can't send
If the message is coming from mydomain.local then it isn't getting the
settings from the recipient policy, presuming you set up the policy so that
mydomain.net is the default. Double check.
> mail to user@mydomain.net the other way. UGH...
Not sure what you mean by this.
>
> All the documentation I have seen so far only looks at the
> exchange server being the primary server and I can't
> change the way the office is setup.
What's your office setup now? You can still have all Internet mail go to the
*nix box (for scanning or whatever you run on there) and then relay it on to
the Exchange server so the latter isn't exposed to the Internet. You can
have all Exchange's outbound mail go to the *nix box as a smarthost...
>
> Thanks for your help.
> Matt
>
>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Matt
>>
>>
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