Topic: qmail route

[James Nofsinger]

I don't know if anyone can help me on this subject or not, but what the heck!
i'll try anyways.  

at work i have 2 seperate email systems, one for the office here and another
for the executive office.

e-smith server is ours, and it has a real ip address and a fake one
(its config'd to be a gateway)

executive server is an MS-Exchange server, and has a fake ip address only

a couple of days ago i had the executive server, use our e-smith server to send
email out to the real world.  this works fine

my problem is I can not seem to get the qmail on the e-smith server to
route email up to the executive server. I tried a couple of things with the smtproutes
and the rcpthosts file, and none of them worked correctly.

smtproutes:
.exec.summitoh.net:exec.summitoh.net
exec.summitoh.net:exec.summitoh.net
.summitoh.net:e-smith.summitoh.net
summitoh.net:e-smith.summitoh.net
:e-smith.summitoh.net


rcpthosts:
.exec.summitoh.net
exec.summitoh.net
.summitoh.net
summitoh.net

The above and a couple of other mutations got me as far as inter-office email
anything with summitoh.net was allowed to send to *.summitoh.net but no
other email addresses: hotmail.com netscape.com etc etc.

I looked and looked for a fix on the qmail site to this problem, I can't seem to
find one yet.  I was just wondering if anyone else that reads the board has
experienced this problem, and might know a sensible fix



Thanks,

Jim

[Charlie Brady]

James Nofsinger wrote:

> executive server is an MS-Exchange server, and has a fake ip
> address only

Well, I see two problems there - first there is an M$-Exchange server . The other problem is that the exchange server has a fake ip address. That in itself is not a problem, but it is quite unlikely that there is a public DNS entry for that machine which lists the fake IP address.

> smtproutes:

Try:

exec.summitoh.net:[a.b.c.d]

Where a.b.c.d is the IP address of the exchange server.

It seems you are aware that you also need exec.summitoh.net in your rcpthosts file. You don't need it or want it in your locals file.

Let us know how you get on.

Charlie