Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 13:51:22 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Riffle <rif@ns.kconline.com> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: MS Exchange client Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970110133633.21373A-100000@ns.kconline.com>
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I have a client who has purchased the Microsoft Exchange server with the Internet Mail Connector add-on for his NT box. He is wanting to use this as a gateway for his domains email. Instead of having the IMC use uucp, Microsoft decided to have it use straight SMTP for everything, so I am hoping someone can shed some light on to how to configure what I need to on my end to make this work. Here is what the MS FAQ says they need from the ISP: "Your service provider must configure their SMTP host to act as a relay host for your domain. That means they must configure a DNS MX record that instructs all hosts to connect to their server to send mail to your domain. Their host must be configured to hold mail for your domain until you system dials in to retrieve it. Typically, your system will have to issue a command to their server when it connects to trigger it to deliver any mail it has queued." The MX record is no problem, I have already configured that so mail will be delivered to my machine. However, the "relay" part is where I do not know what to do. When mail comes in, it will try to deliver it to local users, and if not bounce it. Appearently, I need to mail coming in for that domain to enter into my mailque and wait for them to call to pick it up. They would issue a rsh ns.kconline.com "/usr/sbin/sendmail -qRtheirdomain.com" to send the mail to their machine. Obviously that suggests then their domain will have some sort of static IP which when they are connected the mail would be able to be delivered. So, the problem lies in having my box accept the mail for their domain and hold it in the queue until it is deliverable. Anyone had success on setting something like this up? Thanks! Jim Riffle
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