how can I enable a Domino server to relay multiple SMTP domains?
In our company we have multiple Domino Servers and multiple non-Domino mail servers hosting different smtp domains, e.g. company.com, company.ch, company.de and so on. The Domino server’s task is now to recieve SMTP mail for all these Domino and non-Domino SMTP domains, and to relay mails to the user’s Domino Home Server or to the correlative non-Domino SMTP server.
To recieve mail for the non-Domino SMTP domain company.com, it is listed in the global domain document. Furthermore there is a foreign SMTP domain document for domain mail.company.com pointing at the destination server. All users of domain company.com are listed in the Domino Directory, each having a forwarding address in the form of user@mail.company.com.
As you might guess, this kind of user-based forwarding is fairly extensive. Is there a way to configure the Domino Server for a simple host-based relaying, so that all mail recieved for domain company.com is relayed to a certain SMTP server?
Thanks for your help and any links to documentation in advance!
Lars, this is very simple, you need to create a Foreign SMTP Domain document in the names.nsf. You can find it in the Configurations\Messaging\Domains section. Create the Foreign SMTP Domain document, specifying the “internet domain” as the domain you are going to relay mail for. Specify the “internet host” as the actual smtp server for the internet domain.
For example, if you are relaying mail for invcs.com and our smtp server is mail1.invcs.com, you would set:
You then restart the smtp and router tasks (or the entire server to be safe) and you should now be able to act as a rely for the domain. Create as many domain records as you need to. There are other features you can set to set timeouts (i.e., how long it’ll queue mail until it gives up and returns to sender…)…This should get you going.
I worried about the Domino Server wouldn’t accept mails in the absence of an entry in the Global Domain Document. Never tried before, but by now. And you’re right, he does! You need nothing but a simple Foreign SMTP Doc.