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SMTP and Local domain (Very Wierd) Prav
1/26/2006 11:06:05 AM
iis smtp nntp: Hello,
We are running IIS6 on win 2003 standard on our web server. IIS is hosting
few external websites. For email we are using the outside hosted exchange
server. I have recently setup the smtp on the web server so the developer can
send email from his web app using that server. For some reason email to
anyone@anydomain.com gets delivered without anyproblem except to the users
who have anyone@companydomain.com address. for example we are using
mydomain.local with AD for the local domain name and for the mydomain.com for
the company external domain where the email address and the website is
pointing to. I am pulling my hair as to why mail directed to
anyuser@mydomain.com just sits on the queue folder and does not go anywhere.
Re: SMTP and Local domain (Very Wierd) Christopher Reed
1/27/2006 12:19:16 AM
Usually, your main email server probably has some relaying restrictions in
place so that you cannot send email through it. However, your best option
is to use the web server as your SMTP server (127.0.0.1) and not use the
mail server just for that reason.
--
Christopher A. Reed
"The oxen are slow, but the earth is patient."

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Re: SMTP and Local domain (Very Wierd) Prav
1/27/2006 8:39:04 AM
Christopher,
Thank you for replying. As I said in my earlier post that we use outside
hosted exchange and the email works going out of that server to anyother
address except the address that matches our domain name. I am running my
webserver as a smtp server. I have one default virtual smtp server running
under IIS and nothing special on the relay on that server. Just the default
check boxes.. Like I said, our domain is xyz.local and the problem is only
with users with xyz.com not anyother domain. So I was thinking if there is
any alias issue or for some reason the webserver is confused with the domain
name?? By the way, The webserver is connected to the domain so it is one of
the member server on the local domain running AD.. Don't ask me why this is
the configuration we chose? It is above my head.. Again thanks for replying..


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Re: SMTP and Local domain (Very Wierd) Prav
1/27/2006 11:01:31 AM
Thanks.. Got the problem fixed. All I had to do was add the mx record for the
exchange server to the smarthost on the webserver.

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