Correct. Unix MTA's pretty much only have DNS MX records to provide routing information
-------------------------------------------------------------- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: Fyodorov, Andrey FTL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 5:32 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Backup MX > > :) I think he was digging a little deeper. He was wondering > why additional > configuration would need to be made on the Exchange 2000 > server so that > Exchange would relay mail to the final destination server. > > According to what he says Unix would just do it based on the > MX records. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Chris > Scharff > Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 5:08 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Backup MX > > > Which is what the poster was asking about. Exchange will use > secondary Mx > records if a primary Mx is not available, which is what I > think you were > asking about. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Fyodorov, Andrey FTL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Posted At: Thursday, April 01, 2004 4:06 PM > Posted To: swynk > Conversation: Backup MX > Subject: RE: Backup MX > > Exchange 2000 will refuse to relay mail to another domain, > regardless of MX > records. Unless you specifically instruct it to do so by > defining an address > space for that target domain and check the option "Allow > relaying to this > domain". To do all that, you need to start by creating an > SMTP connector. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Dickenson, Steven > Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 4:59 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Backup MX > > > Showing my ignorance of Exchange SMTP in large environments... > > Every unix MTA I've worked with has been intelligent enough > to realize when > there is a higher priority MX for the domain, and to > automatically deliver > mail to that machine. This, of course, assumes that the MTA is not > configured as the final destination for that domain's mail, > just as a relay. > Does Exchange not work this way? > > Steven > --- > Steven Dickenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Network Administrator > The Key School, Annapolis Maryland > > -----Original Message----- > From: Fyodorov, Andrey FTL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 2:37 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Backup MX > > > Oh... > > Yeah, point the secondary MX at the abc.com's Exchange 2000 server. > > But you will have to do other tricks to make it work so that abc.com's > Exchange 2000 server would accept mail for fgh.com and then actually > reroute it to fgh.com's Exchange 2000 server. But since the > latter is down, > then mail is going to sit in a retry queue... You want to > make sure that it > could hold it longer than 2-3 days, until fgh.com's Exchange > 2000 server is > up again and can accept mail. This is almost like ETRN. Well, you can > actually set things up to be ETRN. > > You will need to create an additional SMTP connector on > abc.com with address > space for fgh.com with cost = 1, and select the option that > would allow to > relay mail to fgh.com. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Phillip > Stafford > Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 2:15 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Backup MX > > > Two domains, meaning that the exchange server on one domain (such as > abc.com) would also utilize their Exchange 2k server to > provide backup mail > service to domain fgh.com in the event that fgh.com's > exchange server goes > down. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Fyodorov, > Andrey FTL > Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 1:48 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Backup MX > > > Why are there two domains? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Phillip > Stafford > Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 1:37 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Backup MX > > > Anyone know the proper way for setting up 1 Exchange server > to be another > one's backup server? I have been searching high and low and > have come upon > several different supposed methods. None seem to work fully. > > Right now, what I have done is configured external DNS for > domain B to have > MX 20 (primary is MX 10) point to domain a. > > On Exchange server B, I have setup an SMTP connector with the > domain name, > the IP address for that exchange server listed in the smart > host field, have > configured within their to allow relaying through my server, etc. > > However, when we tried a test of this backup MX, I could not > visibly tell > whether my server was acting as a backup. I was looking at > the SMTP queues > and I couldn't find any messages listed for that connector > even though I had > been sending email to domain B and had not received any NDRs. > > Any help is appreciated. > > Thanks. > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&t > ext_mode=& > lang > =english > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: > Jupitermedia Corp. > Attn: Discussion List Management > 475 Park Avenue South > New York, NY 10016 > > Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&t > 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