Exchaneg Internet Mail Delivery
Westley L. Hespeth
deliver smtp mail to over the net is via the servers DNS MX entry.
Is this ture ??
Westley L. Hespeth
All-Speth Software
hesp...@all-speth.com
http://www.all-speth.com
Rich Matheisen
>To my knowledge, the only way Exchange knows where (what server) to
>deliver smtp mail to over the net is via the servers DNS MX entry.
>
>Is this ture ??
No. You can address a message using the standard "dotted decimal"
notation, too:
user@[123.123.123.123]
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Richard Matheisen Wang Global
Microsoft Certified System Engineer Tewksbury, MA
mailto:richard....@wang.com http://www.wang.com/
Shawn Stumbaugh
somewhere in the server settings that once set causes Exchange to
automatically forward all messages that that SMTP server for final
delivery.
HTH!
Shawn
Rich Matheisen
>If you already have a SMTP server, you can also specify a "smart host"
>somewhere in the server settings that once set causes Exchange to
>automatically forward all messages that that SMTP server for final
>delivery.
It might have helped if you gave the reference instead of "somewhere
in the server settings." I don't know of anything in Exchange that
will cause it to send message to a smart host or to another SMTP
server that acts as a "last chance" router unless it's all messages
are are handled that way, or all messages for a particular e-mail
domain are handled that way.
Are you, perhaps, refering to the "Forward all messages to host" on
the IMS "Connections" tab? That will work, but it really doesn't
answer the question that was asked. It depends on ANOTHER SMTP server
to act as a SMTP relay.
Shawn Stumbaugh
Sorry, I'm not on a machine where I have access to all settings info (or
even docs) but did remember being able to point exchange server to another
SMTP server.
Original question was:
>To my knowledge, the only way Exchange knows where (what server) to
>deliver smtp mail to over the net is via the servers DNS MX entry.
>
>Is this ture ??
>
Aside from lacking the specific tab setting, the answer provided shows that
MX resolution via DNS is NOT the "only way Exchange knows where to deliver
SMTP mail".
Shawn