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

[Francois Dion]

james wrote:

>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.
>  
>
Like I said, I cant touch the windows box it looks like. So, I also 
tried to set up an smtproute. Thing is, for this to work only on one 
user, I have to expand on the domain. For user at abc.com, i forward to 
user at exchange.abc.com and instead of mucking with DNS, I used this in 
the smtproutes file:

exchange.abc.com:1.2.3.4

Where 1.2.3.4 is the exchange server (ip and nameshave been changed to 
protect the innocent and the not so innocent :P )

I figured this would work (and get the domain literal issue out of the 
way). Of course, not. When I send email to user at abc.com, it gets routed 
to the exchange server, but exchange is coming back with:

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

Delivery to the following recipients failed.
	user at exchange.abc.com

Sending directly to the exchange box (telnet session on port 25) to user at abc.com does work, and exchange is the name of the machine (again, changed since this is a public forum).


Is there something simple I can tell the Exchange guy on how to accept 
email directed to @exchange.abc.com as it's own, the same it treats 
@abc.com?

Thanks,
Francois