How to force all messages to route through a particular server?

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Here’s the scenario:

I have an SMTP server that receives all incoming e-mail from the Internet.

All incoming messages will either go to 1 of 3 domino servers, the SMTP looks at the recipient and forwards themessage directly to correct server. but what I would like to do is actually forward ALL incoming messages to SERVER1 and let SERVER1 decide if the message should stay on SERVER1 on be forwarded to SERVER2 or SERVER3.

Is this possible? If so, how?

Thanks

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Subject: Set the relay host setting of your SMTP box to be the one Domino box you want to route through.

Or is your SMTP box also Domino?

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Subject: RE: Set the relay host setting of your SMTP box to be the one Domino box you want to route through.

Hi Bruce, thanks for replying. Yes my SMTP box is Domino as well. Do I have to create a Connection document? I haven’t done administration in ages! lol

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Subject: RE: Set the relay host setting of your SMTP box to be the one Domino box you want to route through.

In that case, the simple way to put it is to be sure that there’s no routing path from your SMTP inbound box and any other Domino box besides Server1 – whether it’s connection document routing or named network routing. I’ll bet that the SMTP box and the other mail servers are all in the same named network, and all you have to do is take the SMTP box out of that NN and connect it (both ways) to server1 with a pair of connection docs.

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Subject: RE: Set the relay host setting of your SMTP box to be the one Domino box you want to route through.

Im looking at the passthru connection optins in the connection document. But i keep getting a server error cannot access server…

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