In addition to what Al said, DSaccess and DSProxy are the 2 components responsible for locating, resolving and providing referrals for internal users located AD. SMTP Categorizer uses DSAccess to resolve a mailbox addy to a user (and for other things). Exchange knows to send an email to an external server by looking at the domain name part of the email address and determining whether it is responsible for THAT domain or not. If it is not responsible for the domain, Exchange (nay, all SMTP servers) categorizes the email as outbound. If it determines that it is responsible for the domain, it then utilizes its components to resolve the mailbox and route the email for delivery based on the resolution. It’s more involved than that, but you get the gist.

 

When you get to the Exchange Library site, be sure to look for the “Exchange Technical Reference” doc.

 

Deji

 

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mulnick, Al
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 8:53 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT:(again)exchange address

 

Exchange doesn't care about internal/external in that way.  Exchange is SMTP

based and follows the concept of authoritative for a domain or not.  That's

configured via Recipient Policies GUI typically.

 

GUIDS to find users?  I've never heard that and can't comment past saying

that a user-object has a guid and an SMTP address as attributes. They are

connected and could be used, but why?  Homemdb (and several other attributes

that must exist in order to qualify for mail receipt) would be more useful I

would guess. 

 

As for addresses, Exchange has to do lookups for the SMTP addresses and then

deliver the message.  Since it's SMTP based and uses a centralized directory

service, as mail comes in from external systems (external to Exchange) it

MUST lookup the address either in cache or in the directory itself to be

able to bring the transaction to resolution.  That's where the 1:4 MHZ

server to GC recommendation comes from; you'll knock over a GC in a

high-volume environment if you're not careful.

 

As for docs that explain internal routing, you can find those at

http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/library and I would suggest the

troubleshooting routing docs.

 

Does that help?

Al

 

-----Original Message-----

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern, Tom

Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 11:38 AM

To: [email protected]

Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT:(again)exchange address

 

doesn't exchange use guids to find users? it can't associate a guid with a

smtp address?

or rather, how exactly does exchange tell if an address is in AD or out on

the internet and how does it find the owner of said address(if in AD) under

the hood?

are there any docs you could point me to?

 

thanks

 

 

 

joe wrote:

> Yep. I have seen it go a couple of ways at various times.

>

> User1 gets the email but User2 doesn't.

> User2 gets the email but User1 doesn't.

> Sometimes one way, sometimes the other.

> Neither get it and an NDR is sent.

>

> Basically only one person gets the message or no one gets the message.

> This is why I end up working on scripts to find duplicates.

> :o)

>

>

>   joe

>

>

> -----Original Message-----

> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Coleman,

> Hunter Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 11:27 AM

> To: [email protected]

> Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT:(again)exchange address

>

> Typically it will result in neither person getting the email, and the

> sender will get and NDR. Addresses (primary and any secondaries) need

> to be unique within the forest to prevent the delivery failure.

> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;258058

>

> -----Original Message-----

> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern, Tom

> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 8:52 AM

> To: ActiveDir (E-mail)

> Subject: [ActiveDir] OT:(again)exchange address

>

> Hi, if i have 2 users with the same name in 2 different domains in a

> win2k forest and both users have the other users' primary smtp address

> as a secondary like so- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] secondary

>

> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

>

>

> will both users get each others mail? will exchange try to deliever to

> both mailboxes based on the smtp address? when exchange gets a email

> doesn't it just use that smtp address value to find the attribute and

> user associated with it and then deliever the mail? or is a lot more

> involved?

>

> thanks

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