Re: GroupWise to GroupWise send fail

[Edward van der Maas]

immecor wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I have a interesting situation. I have a GroupWise 7 server on the
> internal segment of my firewall which is our corporate email system.
> I also have a GroupWise 8 server in the dmz. I need to have the
> ability to send mail from our corporate server to the dmz server. I
> can send from the dmz to the corporate because of the firewall rules.
> However the firewall will not allow the send to happen from the
> corporate to the dmz. Is there a way I can send to the dmz server
> without modifing our firewall rules?

So are they complete different systems or are they part of the same
groupwise system ?

If they are part of the same system then make sure the MTA's can
communicate with each other properly via MTP. Depending what ports you
have used for MTP you have to open those.

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Cheers,
Edward

[Edward van der Maas]

immecor wrote:

> They are two seperate systems. I don't believe that it is an MTP issue
> as I am receiving a host down error on the bounce back. From what I
> know understand is the firewall is blocking any traffic that is coming
> in that orginated from it's own interface. So I am trying to come up
> a way to have the GroupWise systems send mail directly to each other
> rather than going out of the infrastructure and coming back in.

So how have you connected them to each other ? Did you create a
route.cfg on your GWIA or something ?

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Cheers,
Edward

[Edward van der Maas]

immecor wrote:

> This is where I need some direction.

If you want them to communicate via the GWIA you can set up a
route.cfg. For more info on that see:

http://www.novell.com/documentation/gw7/gw7_admin/data/a2zi22h.html#bsj7
j37

Make sure both servers can reach port 25 on one and another's servers.

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Cheers,
Edward

[Edward van der Maas]

immecor wrote:

>
> Hello,
> So to modify the route.cfg file what entry would I include. The
> server in the dmz I am trying to send directly to main domain is
> mail.123.com, however the actual domain I am sending to within GW is
> abc.com. Would I include the main domain or the sub domain? Also
> does the GWIA need to be restarted.

Well, obviously the domains have to match otherwise the receiving
mailserver would just drop it.

I believe it needs a restart but I'm not sure.

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Cheers,
Edward

[Edward van der Maas]

immecor wrote:

> Just a quick update, after updating the route.cfg file and restarting
> the GWIA all works great. I appreciate your time with this.

Welldone :) Thanks for the feedback

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Cheers,
Edward