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Notes-Exchange appended domain
We have a mature Notes environment (6.5.4) in our multi-site organization. Our individual site, being very MS centric, required the use of exchange server (2003 (SP2)). Email sent to our users from outside our organization are sent to a domino server at the bridgehead (per the MX record) then is routed to the exchange server per the domino person document which notes a foreign domain. and uses the connector to manage both messages and directory syncronization. Our users use outlook 2003 and see external incoming smtp messages as appended with the @Notes Domain after the actual address. Can I use SMTP to pass messages between the local domino Server and the local Exchange server while maintaining the connector for directory syncronization (that does a nice job) OR is there a better way to strip these connector appensions? Other than this weirdness, the connector is working beautifully.
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That's really annoying then. I haven't got access to any Notes environments at the moment but I will categorically assure you that the guys who configured up the mail1.box (as distinct from mail.box) did so in such a way as to route through a current Notes/Windows box (they had to do that anyway since their main Notes solution was on AS400.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255160 will explain what is going on and what else you need to do to get the @domain removed. Clearly given your service pack level you're already most of the way there.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255160 will explain what is going on and what else you need to do to get the @domain removed. Clearly given your service pack level you're already most of the way there.
The MS link talks about SMTP routing with notes as the primary inbound server. For native Notes messages to be processed across the connector (instead of SMTP conversion) it will always append the @Domain name.
If you configure domino to use a smarthost, it will send all messages (via SMTP) to the specified server when a match is not found in the local address book. Getting exhange to route back in a similiar fashion is the part I am not familiar with
If you configure domino to use a smarthost, it will send all messages (via SMTP) to the specified server when a match is not found in the local address book. Getting exhange to route back in a similiar fashion is the part I am not familiar with
Internal messages between Notes and Exchange users will use the Notes address so long as the Notes address is the primary address on the AD Contact that has been synced from the Notes environment. This means that any appending is irrelevant because Exchange isn't using the SMTP address.
The link says:
After you upgrade to the latest Exchange Server 2003 post-Service Pack 2 Web Release, the Exchange Connector for Lotus Notes now supports an IBM Notes Domino server as the inbound SMTP gateway during the migration process to Exchange Server. For a longer-term solution, we recommend that you point the inbound SMTP gateway to Exchange Server.
Obviously, when you make exchange the inbound SMTP gateway, it won't append the @NotesDomain.
If the guys that did mail1.box configured it, then they may have added an unsupported agent to the configured box (mail1.box, mail2.box are created when you have more than one box. mail.box is the initial box created, there is no difference between them except that Domino uses the extra boxes as a mail cache for processing) that stripped the @Domain off) When you configure the exchange connector, you must specify a single mail box to use for processing Exchange to Notes mail, and in a multiple mail box environment, you typically pick one of the boxes.
After you upgrade to the latest Exchange Server 2003 post-Service Pack 2 Web Release, the Exchange Connector for Lotus Notes now supports an IBM Notes Domino server as the inbound SMTP gateway during the migration process to Exchange Server. For a longer-term solution, we recommend that you point the inbound SMTP gateway to Exchange Server.
Obviously, when you make exchange the inbound SMTP gateway, it won't append the @NotesDomain.
If the guys that did mail1.box configured it, then they may have added an unsupported agent to the configured box (mail1.box, mail2.box are created when you have more than one box. mail.box is the initial box created, there is no difference between them except that Domino uses the extra boxes as a mail cache for processing) that stripped the @Domain off) When you configure the exchange connector, you must specify a single mail box to use for processing Exchange to Notes mail, and in a multiple mail box environment, you typically pick one of the boxes.
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I can send a visual representation of the internal routing componenets if it would be helpful showing current config (minus specific naming conventions etc)if it would help. would adding SMTP to our local notes server and setting up the SMTP connector to connect to this local server be a path to fixing this issue?
You must already have SMTP on your Notes server otherwise how is it receiving messages from the Internet?
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Our local Notes server( that the Exchange Server attaches to via the connector) is downstream from a set of notes servers which are downstream from a content filter and and the STMP Servers of MX Record. Notes servers communicate between each other via NRPC, everything else is SMTP.
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czcdct, is there any way to get info on any agent the notes guys might have used? Some sort of stripping at the exchange.box would be ideal since the problem only exists on internet based addresses, not the notes ones that have to be redirected back through the system.
Sadly I was somewhat thrown by the internal notes environment you have. It doesn't appear, from your description, to match ones I've worked with (read turned off) Hopefully Marilyng, who is a Notes expert will be able to explain a little more about the Notes side but since he has said some things that are quite clearly not how I have encountered them, I wouldn't like to say with certainty.
Last time I did a Notes co-existence the Notes guys configured their end so as not to append anything. The messages came into Notes and were redirected, as-is, to Exchange.
Just one thing to check though. On the AD Contacts that represent the Notes users can you confirm that the SMTP addresses and Notes addresses (the psuedo one that AD assigns) don't contain superflous information?