Outbound mail from secondary Exchange server

Vasja Bojanic · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 3

Hi all,

We have two Exchange 2003 servers on two different sites. Primary server (EX1) has public IP address, MX record and reverse DNS. Secondary server (EX2) has no public IP and no reverse DNS. They are connected via routing group connectors, and everything is working fine except one thing.
When EX2 has to send mail to internet it does it by itself, and on some SMTP servers on the net it gets rejected because of reverse DNS.
We tried to setup SMTP connector on EX2 server; address space is "*" and smrt host is configured to be EX1. But this did not help. It still send out internet mail by itself. Is this wrong way and how can we acomplish this?

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Leif Pedersen [MVP] · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 94

Hi,

If you create a SMTP connector on EX1, use address space of "*" and use DNS
or smarthost whichever is best for you all internet emails should be
delivered by this connector.

Leif

"Vasja Bojanic" skrev i en meddelelse@microsoft.com...
> Hi all,
>
> We have two Exchange 2003 servers on two different sites. Primary server
(EX1) has public IP address, MX record and reverse DNS. Secondary server
(EX2) has no public IP and no reverse DNS. They are connected via routing
group connectors, and everything is working fine except one thing.
> When EX2 has to send mail to internet it does it by itself, and on some
SMTP servers on the net it gets rejected because of reverse DNS.
> We tried to setup SMTP connector on EX2 server; address space is "*" and
smrt host is configured to be EX1. But this did not help. It still send out
internet mail by itself. Is this wrong way and how can we acomplish this?

Vasja Bojanic · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 3

Thank you very much! It worked immediately! EX2 forwards outbound mail to EX1 and EX1 delivers it to net. Great!

Vasja Bojanic · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 3

Thank you very much! It worked immediately! EX2 forwards outbound mail to EX1 and EX1 delivers it to net. Great!

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