Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 15:48:08 +1100 From: Shigetoh Howard Kumagai <howard@wr.com.au> To: rif@ns.kconline.com Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MS Exchange client Message-ID: <9701110453.AA28334@wr.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Jan 1997 13:51:22 -0500 (EST)" References: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970110133633.21373A-100000@ns.kconline.com>
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Hi, This is Shigetoh Kumagai. I configure and maintain Exchange as a part of my day job for our customers. By the way, I think this mailing list is for FreeBSD _and_ ISP related matters. Not for Exchange... From: Jim Riffle <rif@ns.kconline.com> Subject: MS Exchange client Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 13:51:22 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970110133633.21373A-100000@ns.kconline.com> rif> rif> I have a client who has purchased the Microsoft Exchange server with the rif> Internet Mail Connector add-on for his NT box. He is wanting to use this rif> as a gateway for his domains email. Instead of having the IMC use uucp, rif> Microsoft decided to have it use straight SMTP for everything, so I am rif> hoping someone can shed some light on to how to configure what I need to rif> on my end to make this work. Here is what the MS FAQ says they need from rif> the ISP: rif> "Your service provider must configure their SMTP host to act as a relay rif> host for your domain. That means they must configure a DNS MX record that rif> instructs all hosts to connect to their server to send mail to your rif> domain. Their host must be configured to hold mail for your domain until rif> you system dials in to retrieve it. Typically, your system will have to rif> issue a command to their server when it connects to trigger it to deliver rif> any mail it has queued." What you shoud get is Service Pack 2 for Exchange 4.0 at least. This makes configuration a litte easier. Are you going to connect you customer permanent or semi-permanent? This will also make some difference. rif> rif> The MX record is no problem, I have already configured that so mail will rif> be delivered to my machine. However, the "relay" part is where I do not rif> know what to do. When mail comes in, it will try to deliver it to local rif> users, and if not bounce it. Appearently, I need to mail coming in for rif> that domain to enter into my mailque and wait for them to call to pick it rif> up. There are a couple of tricks you need to know to makes things work in IMC with Exchange. It's not that difficult to figure out if you RTFM. rif> They would issue a rsh ns.kconline.com "/usr/sbin/sendmail rif> -qRtheirdomain.com" to send the mail to their machine. Obviously that rif> suggests then their domain will have some sort of static IP which when rif> they are connected the mail would be able to be delivered. rif> rif> So, the problem lies in having my box accept the mail for their domain and rif> hold it in the queue until it is deliverable. See Sendmail book and DNS book(For detail, see http://www.ora.com) Shigetoh Howard Kumagai -------------------------> Sailing OZ "Exile" broke long-standing Sydney-Hobart race recard in 1996!! Home: howard@wr.com.au Work: shigetoh@intercad.com.au(English text only) http://www.intercad.com.au/
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