Hi - hope someone can help. Most of our domain is currently running Domino 6.5.x. I recently built a Domino 8.0.1 server and configured it to route SMTP mail so all SMTP traffic goes via this server to our mailsweeper server. This has been working as expected. However I have built some new Domino 8.0.1 mail servers in the same domain as the current 6.5 servers and migrated a few pilot users onto them - these users now cannot send external SMTP mail. The message we get is:501 5.7.1 This system is not configured to relay mail (r) from users.name@our.address.co.uk> to recipients.name@abcde.com for “ip address of mail server”. I’ve obviously missed something but can’t see what!
Thanks in advance,
Paul
Subject: Resolved!
On Router/SMTP Basics tab changed “SMTP used when sending messages outside of local internet domain” to Enabled and changed the “Relay host for messages leaving the local internet domain” from our mailsweeper server to the ip address of our Domino 8 SMTP server. All I had to do then was add the new mail servers to the “Exclude these connecting hosts from anti-relay checks” field.
Thanks to everyone for their help.
Subject: Relay mail
Mail Routing. What Fun!
On the server doc for the NEW server, Basics tab:
Routing tasks: Mail Routing, SMTP Mail Routing.
On destination server, Config doc, Router/smtp tab, SMTP Inbound restrictions tab:
“Allow messages only from the following internet hosts to be sent to external internet domains:” - does this contain the IP/FQDN of the NEW server?
You could try a Telnet session, port 25 from NEW server to SMTP routing server, see if the receiving server will allow this.
HTH
Pete Spoors
Subject: Thanks but…
Thanks for the quick reply Pete. The new mail servers are listed in the inbound connections controls on the R8 server which is running SMTP - I didn’t think the new mail servers would need to run the SMTP task as well(none of the R6.5 servers are running the SMTP task but they are all transfering mail OK)?
Subject: Same Domain and NNN?
You don’t have to enable SMTP routing on all your servers as long as your native Notes routing is correct. You didn’t explicitly say the new D8 SMTP outbound server was in a new domain, but your comment about the new ND8 servers “in the same domain as the old 6.5 servers” implies the first D8 server is not. If it’s not in the same domain as the old servers, in fact, if it’s not in the same Notes Named Network as those servers, you need to make sure there are appropriate Mail Routing connection docs so they can route mail.
Subject: Sorry…
Sorry it wasn’t very clear. All servers are in the same NNN and all servers can see each other (used trace on the domino console). It just looks as though the D8 “mail” servers are ignoring the Foreign SMTP Domain doc and just trying to route directly to the mailsweeper server.
Subject: Some config changes and now new error message
Changed the Router/SMTP Basics setting “SMTP used when sending messages outside of the local internet domain” to “Disabled” for the new D8 mail servers. When trying to send external mail I now get: “No route found to domain xxx.co.uk from server our/server. Check Server, Connection and Domain documents in the Domino Directory”.
Foreign SMTP Domain doc on routing tab “Internet Domain” contains . and in should be routed to section “Domain Name” contains following text “TheInternet”
I also have a connection doc with connection type of SMTP, the source server is our D8 SMTP server, the destination domain contains “TheInternet” and the SMTP MTA relay host contains the IP address of our mailsweeper server.
thanks!