ok. i think you guys are overcomplicating things-
i have one contact which like most contacts, is for an address external to my ORG.
this contact has 1 address which is also its primary address.
the address is external to my ORG. In other words, its a contact :)
the smtp address on the contact is [EMAIL PROTECTED].
i have journaling enabled on all my mailstores. the journal "mailbox" is this contact.
journal mail gets forwarded to this contact which is an address on a 3rd party journaling/archive soultion.
their mail infratstructure has nothing to do with me.
they just accept journaled email from us.
now, mail going(via journaling) to this contact gets routed out a dedicated smtp connector.
the address space on this connector is "*.journaldomain.com".
when mail going to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] gets routed to its smtp connector, the bridgehead server rewrites the RCPT TO: address as
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
the archive/journal companie's mailserver only accepts mail for "servername.journaldomain.com" NOT "Journaldomain.com
", so i get "unable to relay" errors and my journal queue builds up.
when i change the coonector address space to "servername.journaldomain.com", some mail starts to flow but then it stops as well.
now my 2 questions are-
why does exchange rewrite the RCP TO: address?
and
why would mail stop flowing? am i sending too much mail to them(they run exchange 2k as well)?
how would i know?
how many connections can exchange accept at one time incoming?
Thanks for the list suggestions but i tried the Sunbelt one which is pretty bad. the noise to info ratio is insanely uneven.
i also tried the one at [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is pretty decent but i didn't get many responses.
that could be my fault and the way i worded my problem(most likely).
thanks for all your help and time spent on this already.
On 10/10/05, Derek Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The Exchange discussion list here has some people who can probably tell you for sure:
http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html
Are the servers all in the same Exchange Org? Where does the contact send the mail? Your mailboxes & contacts shouldn't have their home server name in their domain string, unless you specifically set them up that way.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of joe
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 3:48 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] exchange confusion(OT)
I may regret asking this, but recall I don't know squat about Exchange message routing.Why do you need a connector? If the name is resolvable from your server, it doesn't seem like it should need anything special to get to it.joe
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Tom Kern
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 3:28 PM
To: activedirectory
Subject: [ActiveDir] exchange confusion(OT)
I have a contact with the addy of [EMAIL PROTECTED].I created a smtp connector with an address space of *.domain.com.when exchange 2k sends an email destined for [EMAIL PROTECTED] thru that smtp connector, it rewrites the addy in the RCPT TO: as [EMAIL PROTECTED], taking out the servename.i see this in the smtp logs on the server and the remote server dosen't accept mail to that addy and is saying "relay not allowed".Now, my question-why is exchange rewriting the address just because i'm using a wildcard in the connector address space?is this by design?What if i wanted a connector going to every domain under domain.com like subdomain.domain.com and childdomain.domain.com ?wouldn't i just create a connector with an address space of *.domain.com?should exchange 2k just forward the email without changing the RCPT TO: headers?am i wrong and clueless as usual?what am i missing?i'm running Exchange 2k post sp3 rollup in mixed mode(but no exchange 5.5 servers or ADC).Thanks alot
