RE: Mail Routing - Making Exchange 2003 Dumber
- From: Gideon12 <gideon12@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 20:14:44 -0500
Unfortunately Exchange cannot be the routing master, so I can't have
Exchange send out the copies. It has to go through the SMTP router. It's
unusual, I know, but that's what I have to work with.
On 2/6/06, Michael B. Smith <michael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> I support a medium-size academic environment that does this (a couple
> thousand users).
>
> I solved it by adding aliases to each remote server and having Exchange
> send out copies to those aliases.
>
> Seems stupid to me, but it's what the client wanted.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John T (Lists) [mailto:johnlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 11:48 PM
> To: [ExchangeList]
> Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Mail Routing - Making Exchange 2003 Dumber
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> I am sorry, but I fail to see the need or reason for having the same
> e-mail
> address on multiple different servers. That in itself is problematic.
>
> John T
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gideon [mailto:gideon12@xxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 8:01 PM
> > To: [ExchangeList]
> > Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Mail Routing - Making Exchange 2003 Dumber
> >
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> > I am building Exchange to coexist with several other IMAP mail
> systems. A
> > typical employee will have several e-mail accounts on different mail
> > systems, and needs their mail delivered to all those systems. For
> > example, my e-mail address is Gideon@xxxxxxxxxxx, but that e-mail
> address
> > exists on a Cyrus server, a procmail server, and an Exchange server.
> An
> > SMTP router captures all mail, checks what mail systems a user belongs
> to,
> > and sends copies of that mail to all the systems.
> >
> > Since Exchange is not capable of sending mail destined to another
> mailbox
> > within the same store (or within the same server) to an external
> computer,
> > I need to find a way to force mail to be delivered to the SMTP router
> so
> > that the mail is delivered to all the mail systems.
> >
> > I am bound by the fact that the infrastructure is already in place for
> the
> > other mail systems, so I can't make any radical changes to that. I
> have
> > to use the SMTP router that copies the mail to all the different mail
> > systems.
> >
> > What is really killing me is that all the other mail systems can
> easily be
> > configured to send e-mails through the SMTP server, but Exchange can
> only
> > do this if the e-mail is being delivered to an external address. I'm
> > hoping there is a workaround out there, or a third party application
> that
> > can intercept the e-mails within the store and force them out to the
> SMTP
> > router. Both MIME Sweeper and Mail Intercept claim to have this
> > functionality, but they only work in very small environments. I need
> this
> > to work for about 5000 mailboxes (and growing).
> >
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