Dear Experts - I'm new to Exchange 2007, go easy with me!
Scenario: We have an SBS 2008 using Exchange 2007. The Exchange server needs to be configured to receive emails from different domains hosted by different providers. The Exchange server needs to send emails over different smarthosts (smtp servers of the providers) based on the sender's email address domain. Different AD users will be assigned different email addresses.
Example: User1 has email address user1@domain1.com. Emails need to be sent over smarthost1. User2 has email address user2@domain2.com. Emails need to be sent over smarthost2.
Question: Is this possible and how? Thanks.
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The above answer is incorrect.
Exchange cannot route email based on the sender, only on the recipient. If you configure the Send Connector as above, then no email will flow out, because you need a * connector for external email to flow.
Basically you cannot do what you want to do. Exchange isn't able to do that. Therefore you will need to either route all email via the same smart host, or if you have a static IP address use DNS for delivery.
Simon.
Mestha is not correct.
Exchange can use connectors to route on destination domains. One connector must have the * in the name space as this is the default route for email. Other connectors should not have the *. They should just have the destination domain as the address space entry. When exchange sends email it will search all te connectors and if it can match the domain to an address space it will use that connector other wise it will use the default connector.
Thanks for the feedback. I created 2 different connectors with different smarthosts - one for *.domain1.com & one of *.domain2.com - as Mestha stated, no mails went out. So I then configured the following:
--> Hub-Transport, Accepted Domains:
Business Accounts
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by: DCMBSPosted on 2009-06-04 at 03:23:15ID: 24545224
yes it is. Create a send connector and in the send connectors address space delete the * and enter the domain you wish the connetor to route for. Set the appropriate smarthost.