RE: Mail Routing - Making Exchange 2003 Dumber
- From: Gideon12 <gideon12@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 20:13:46 -0500
If you fail to see a need or reason with something, you don't need to
reply. While I'm more than happy to describe in detail what is being
accomplished, I'm not going to justify it. I am hopeful that we are all
professionals here, and will try to help each other out, not criticize each
other's environment.
BTW, what's the fun of just running an Exchange infrastructure?
On 2/5/06, John T (Lists) <johnlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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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> "Seek, and ye shall find!"
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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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