I just tested this, I sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and watched Exchange query DNS for the MX record, an SOA record was returned, it then queried the A record and got that and fired the message off. If it isn't working, then I expect it is in the name res area as Hunter is indicating as well.
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Coleman, Hunter Sent: Mon 9/26/2005 9:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] exchange one more time(ot) Why should Exchange not think that servername.domain.tld is a domain? Can you resolve servername.domain.tld from the Exchange server? How about from the smarthost? ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Kern Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 5:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] exchange one more time(ot) 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] <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
<<winmail.dat>>
