There is only one recipient policy. It is already set to domainname.com for SMTP.
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Browse All TopicsI picked up a client with 2 offices. An exchange 2000 (arggghh) box in each office.
Mail is delivered to MAIN and routed to BRANCH.
Mail sent from BRANCH gets routed through MAIN and out to interwebs.
They were having mail delivery issues sending via DNS so I set the Smart Host under the Default Virtual Server.
External mail is routing fine now.
However MAIN users can't send to BRANCH users with this bounce:
A configuration error in the e-mail system caused the message to bounce between two servers or to be forwarded between two recipients
BRANCH can send to MAIN users still.
I assume this is because the VS is trying to route internal messages to the smarthost.
So my question is what do I need to adjust here. My problem is I don't see any SMTP connectors where I can set the address space.
Under Routing groups MAIN-BRANCH I see remote bridgehead pointed at the Default VS under the connector.
A bit confused in my SBS brain.
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Ok try this
http://mostlyexchange.blog
In specific down the bottom of this article:
The solution was to create an additional Recipient Policy for all users, set the Default Recipient policies primary SMTP address to something other than @somorita.com. And, of course, clear the This Exchange Organization Is Responsible for All Mail Delivery To This Address checkbox on the new policy's SMTP address space.
OK no problem if all the above fail then please use the Exchange best Practise analyzer
http://www.microsoft.com/d
that didnt work either.
So I did some googling. There are SMTP Connectors in Exchange 2000 but they are under routing groups.
I have 2 routing groups. One called MAIN-BRANCH with a remote bridgehead of BRANCH - default SMTP server and another called BRANCH-MAIN with a remote bridgehead of MAIN - default smtp server.
So my object now I think is to create 2 SMTP connectors.
One with address space of * with a smarthost
one with address space of DOMAINNAME.COM and no smarthost.
Question is which routing group to put it under? What bridgehead to use?
Bridgeheads act as replicators and normally are automatically chosen, you can select other dc's to act as bridgeheades
Please read to understand bridgeheads:
http://support.microsoft.c
The problem your describing should be resolved by this article:
http://support.microsoft.c
You should have a SMTP connector uses a smart host correct?
In Exchange System Manager if you go to your routing groups could you please post screen shots of both server connectors so I can see
Livegirllove you say you have 2 routing group connectors is this done because due to network traffic?
I would strongly advise you to read the following article to understand routing group connectors if you still get stuck then please post screen shots of the setup so I can assist further :)
http://articles.techrepubl
Also how to setup a SMTP connector in exchange 2000 / 2003
http://support.microsoft.c
I am going to hit the sack now as its 5am in London if you still need assistance please post some screenshots
Agreed but you are aware DNS is the recommended configuration for Exchange? when you say that works I am assuming branch and main can send emails to each other without any problems?
If you still want to proceed with a smart host I would suggest the following:
Take screenshots of everything prior to doing the below
1. Delete both routing group connectors
2. setup smtp connector with a smart host do some testing and see if everything starts flowing let me know and we will go from there
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by: Raheem05Posted on 2009-11-03 at 17:57:47ID: 25735756
Livegirllove,
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Have you read this specific article by microsoft which relates to your problem?
http://support.microsoft.c