when i had the smtp connector point to dns, it failed with "remote host did not respond".
when pointing to a smarthost it worked.
maybe exchange while sending to [EMAIL PROTECTED], thinks servername.domain.tld is a domain and when it gets a nxdomain from domain.tld, it fails?
no?
sillier things have been know to occur with exchange...
thanks
On 9/26/05, joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From my experience it should work fine. It doesn't have to know if the right hand side is a domain or host IP, it simply needs to try and look it up in DNS. I believe it will try an MX lookup and failing that, fall back to a host record lookup.A simple test would be to enable SMTP on some machine in your domain, make sure there is a host record for the given name and then send a message to it, you should see the message hit your configured drop folder.joe
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Tom Kern
Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 2:12 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] exchange one more time(ot)
how does it figure out its a literal addy and not a domain? how does it know the RHS is not a domain name and fail trying to look it up?or does it fail and then go up the list to the other part of the name?I'd like to know because i can't find any exchange docs on it.there's nothing in the app log.i'll turn up diag logging..mail didn't start flowing untill i changed the connector to point to a smart host rather than dns.until then, it just sat in the queue. the error in the queue was "remote destatination did not respond".Thanks
On 9/23/05, Al Mulnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:Exchange should be able to deliver to a literal address as long as it is not its own. That's a valid and a common address in SMTP.Check the logs to see what the failure is. There's a lot of possibilities as to why it may not get to its destination.Al
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Tom Kern
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 3:07 PM
To: activedirectory
Subject: [ActiveDir] exchange one more time(ot)
If i set up a contact with the server name in the addy as in [EMAIL PROTECTED], will the message get delivered or will exchange think " servername.domain.tld " is the domain name and throw an error?Just a question i'm throwing out because an archive solution is giving me that kind of contact to send mail to and its not getting there.I have a feeling its because of that and i should just create a connector to forward to that addy as a smarthost but i want to confirm with you guys that i can't write an address in that form and expect exchange(or any smtp server?) to deliver the mail.thanks
