[geeks] Domain litterals with evil MS Exchange, how would you do this?

[james]

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 16:47, Francois Dion wrote:
> I have a proper unix box (sun) with qmail. I have a specific account I 
> need to forward to a MS Exchange 2003 (w/AD and all) server inside the 
> network, on a private IP. I just forwarded to user at internal ip. I do 
> this at home between my main mail server (qmail) and one of my SGI box, 
> works great. This is proper as far as RFC1123 is concerned (required in 
> fact). You guessed it, MS Exchange wont do it. It's trying to send that 
> back out not recognising that this is it's own IP.
> 
> What is the best approach? Do some kind of hack to replace the IP with 
> the domain on the unix box? On the windows box? Another thing I tought 
> of, was adding an SMTP service in the recipients -> recipients policies 
> (under ESM), to the default policy to accept the @IPaddress domain but 
> the guy who manages the box says it will bring down his box if I did that.
> 
> Any suggestions appreciated.
> 
> Francois

You need to read about SMTP connectors for Exchange. You also need to
make sure that the Exchange box will forward for the domain/IP's
involved.