I didn't say it was optimal, just how it was done in other places that insist on silly mail routing.
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 Chris Scharff Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 10:56 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Help stopping local delivery Course that will hopelessly confuse users and make the overall messaging infrastructure that much more complex to administer and maintain. It also won't prevent users from mailing each other locally simply by selecting a recipient out of the GAL. > -----Original Message----- > From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 12:45 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Help stopping local delivery > > 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] _________________________________________________________________ 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]
