I have two servers in my domain.
Lots of mail is generated on Server ‘A’
Server ‘B’ should be sending and receiving ALL mail to the internet.
I need to use NOTES ROUTING to get mail generated by server ‘A’ on to Server ‘B’. These are all internet emails.
The only way I can make this work is to use SMTP on Server ‘A’ and Server ‘B’.
I’ve tried turning this off on server ‘A’ and it doesn’t work.
In desperation I’ve created a foreign SMTP domain document pointing to server ‘B’ and server ‘A’ sends the email without problems. Of course, now server ‘B’ is sending the mail to its-self…
So… how do we use Notes routing to move mail destined to the internet from one server to a second (in the same domain) and have the second server do the conversion and send the SMTP message?
Subject: Mail Routing Issues – help!!!
The Notes mail router natively speaks SMTP for sending - you should only need to run the SMTP task on servers (like your Server B) that receive Internet mail.
On Server A, make sure Routing Tasks on the Server document is set to ‘Mail Routing’; on Server B it should be set to Mail Routing; SMTP Mail Routing
In the configuration document for these servers, go to Router/SMTP, Basics, and set ‘SMTP used when sending messages outside of the local internet domain’ set to ‘Enabled’, and ‘SMTP allowed within the local internet domain’ set to ‘Disabled’.
That’s basically how we have it set up here (except that we have an additional SMTP relay), and it works great for us.
Subject: Mail Routing Issues – help!!!
We have succesfully set a system where your “server B” is identified in the Basic Messaging Settings on Server A as the: Relay host for messages leaving the local internet domain
Don’t forget to ensure the settings on Server B limit where it will accept relayed mail from so you don’t have an open relay!
Subject: RE: Mail Routing Issues – help!!!
this configuration will work. The other way to do it is to create a Foreign SMTP domain doc and an SMTP connection doc which connects Server A to AnyHost in the domain named in the Foreign SMTP domain doc. (The connection fools Server B into routing internet mail to Server A.)