Multiple Foreign SMTP Domain documents not routing as planned

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Hola,

We have all internet mail routing though two MTA notes servers and out two sendmail servers. We are looking to replace the sendmail servers with our current inbound spam gateway. So, to do this we have to be able and route internal mail that is directed to and from internal servers (generally Unix/Sendmail). So, we have narrowed in on a few known routing servers, and then want to use a wild card to catch all else. Here is the example:

serverA.internaldomainname.com serverA.internaldomainname.com

serverB.internaldomainname.com serverB.internaldomainname.com

serverC.internaldomainname.com serverC.internaldomainname.com

serverD.internaldomainname.com serverD.internaldomainname.com

serverE.internaldomainname.com serverE.internaldomainname.com

*.internaldomainname.com smarthostrelay.com

. INTERNET

This is what we want. Now, when we add the *.internaldomainname.com, the internal mail servers no longer route to the MTA and try to deliver directly themselves, generating a DFR as follows:

No route found to domain serverA.internaldomainname.com from server MAILSERVER/MAIL/SERVER. Check Server, Connection and Domain documents in the Domino Directory.

If we remove the wild card entry, all other FSMTPD documents work as designed. Mail servers send to the MTA’s and then is routed correctly. If we change the wild card to .internaldomainname.com (no *), then the document does not work at all. If we change it to internaldomainname.com (no . or *), it trumps all other FSMTPD documents.

I have added the desired wild card document, ran updall -R against the names.nsf, then replicated the names.nsf to all servers, followed by some good old router restarting. We currently have an open incident with IBM, but are under a time constraint. If anybody has any ideas, that would be great.

Thanks.

Mike

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Subject: Multiple Foreign SMTP Domain documents not routing as planned

Hi Mike,

Sorry but I didn’t understand your question.

I have at home a server, conected through a cable to the internet , with no fix ip.

As a result, some servers do not receive mail from my home system. I have Foreign SMTP domains documents for those servers, relaying the messages through my ISP. I have a lot of documents and they work as expected. I don’t use a *, only domain name, as in the example:

Domain

Next Domain

Destination Server

.

AllInternetHosts

my.isp-relay.com

I have a few documents like that, and they are all working. Mail to domain.com is sent directly, and mail to walla.com is being send through my isp.

I don’t know if you also have a Global Domain document, and your Server Configuration document is configured accordingly.

regards,

Daniel

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Subject: RE: Multiple Foreign SMTP Domain documents not routing as planned

Thanks for responding. In the myriad of things we tried, we did try with just the domain, as in…Domain

internaldomainname.com

Server

smarthostrelay.com

I think the issue could be, that the FQDN of our Notes servers matches the domain we have listed. Just a theory. We have an open issue with IBM, so hopefully they will have some insight. I will post a solution if it happens.