Routeing of mail to external smtp server on different port
HiI hope you can help me out.. im sure its quite simple, but im quite the novice in exchange and trying to learn
Here is the scenario…
I have a domain.. lets call it abc.com
I have now have a working mail solution for that domain – no problems there.. (not using default recipient policy as my internal domain is called [dot]local, but rather create a new policy for abc.com)
But now I want to create a "sub domain" on that, lets call it sub.abc.com. all mails send to this mail domain I would like to get forwarded from my exchange box to an other smtp host on port 26. ofcause i also created the MX for sub.abc.com to point to my exchange server
This is what I have done so far.. but something must be missing…
1) I created a Recipient Policy so @sub.abc.com with blank filter list is known on my exchange server and when applying the policies it don’t update any users.
2) I created a SMTP connector and put 9999 in inbound port and 26 as outbound port and put the IP address of my new SMTP server that operates on port 26 in the smart host with brackets [ ] – Called it "relay sub.abc.com connector"
3) Then I amended the existing "internet mail connector" so instead of * in the address space I put in abc.com
4) then I created a new connector called it "route sub.abc.com", put in sub.abc.com as address space, and gave it the newly "relay sub.abc.com connector" as bridgehead with a cost of 1. I also gave it the IP of the external SMTP server in the smart host, again in brackets [ ]
Now – I expected that mails send to whatever@sub.abc.com would be routed to external SMTP server via the SMTP connector on port 26.. but no such luck. I do get NDRs back after the mail has been accepted, and it looks like it’s the "Categorizer" that cant figure out what to do with it, but that’s just a guess on my part after enabling diagnostics on MSExchangeTransport component.
I can not figure out what im missing or have done wrong can you guys/gals please help me…
Thanks in advance
