Your setup is overcomplicated. Nonetheless, the way that is typically done is to give all your recipients a reply address in the exch.mydomain.com domain and have the Unix box rewrite the from and reply addresses to the mydomain.com address. I'm not a Unix geek, so I can't tell you how to do it, just that it's the way it's typically done.
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP kcCC+I Tech Consultant hp Services Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Wendy Reetz Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 10:28 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Help stopping local delivery > Do you have your AD DNS as the root & same as your E-mail domain? ...gracious I'm so new at this stuff, I'm not totally sure I know what that means. sorry for the ignorance. :-( But I'll try to explain a little more... The e-mail domain for the exchange box is exch.mydomain.com. the e-mail domain for my company's unix box is mydomain.com. So on the exchange box I have everyone having 2 smtp addresses associated with their user ([EMAIL PROTECTED] & [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ... so that's like 2 names for the same box, right? & the "primary" is the reply to address. & all that's fine...I get my reply to address the way I need it, mail can be forwarded from the unix box to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] account. but, when a user logged in to the exchange server sends a letter to a [EMAIL PROTECTED] that has this secondary smtp defined for it on that exchange server, well, the message never leaves the box. That's surely not a big deal in most people's configurations, but to get any of the virus protection & mail filtering it needs to get off the box & go the normal route of mail destined for @mydomain.com. (that is, it needs to go find the mx record, go to the box defined there, then attempt final delivery to the mydomain.com mail server, then get forwarded to the exch.mydomain.com) If this turns out to be impossible I guess I'll just have to find someway to create equivalent filtering on the exchange server, but with the various levels of filtering & all we have, I'm just not wanting to go there & the boss has already argued against it. I hope this in some way answered your question... ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Q Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 12:12 PM Subject: Re: Help stopping local delivery > Do you have your AD DNS as the root & same as your E-mail domain? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Wendy Reetz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 8:11 AM > Subject: Re: Help stopping local delivery > > > > Can't tell 5000 users not to send mail while connected to exchange, > defeats > > the purpose of exchange as a mail server. Yes, I think it's obvious > > I am > > using it as a mail server, mail just has to go through a particular > > path > of > > unix machines to get there. & that path is preempted by a couple things: > 1) > > reply to address (fixed) 2) local delivery (still not sure if I can > stop). > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Chris Scharff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 10:55 AM > > Subject: RE: Help stopping local delivery > > > > > > > > > > > if it was that easy, I would. :-) > > > > > > OK. Tell the users not to send mail while connected to the > > > Exchange > > server. > > > > > > > I need to have a reply to address on everyone that is > > > > authoratative on > > > > another machine. Can do the reply to the suggested way of using > > > > a > > second > > > > smtp address set as primary, but, then I get local delivery > > > > issues. > > > > > > If you're not using Exchange as a mail server, don't use it as a > > > mail server. > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > > > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > > > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
