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Frontend and Backend Server Configuration

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netnut1234

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Oct 20, 2004
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Hi,

I have installed Exchange 2003 on 2 servers. I have configured one as the front-end server, stopped and disabled the services that are no longer needed. I am not trying to send an email to the internet. I have opened the ports on the firewall. Now when I send an email it is being delivered to my email account OK, but when I look at my firewall tracker I can see the email going out from the back-end and not the front-end server. I know the email is being delivered, but I want all emails to be routed through the front-end exchange server. I have also tried to set up an SMTP connector, but again this doesn't sent the email's via the back-end server. Am I missing anything?
Thanks.
 
Hi,

Yes the FE server is set to Master and the backend is set to member, Emails are being sent out and received as well, but when we track the traffic via the firewall, it looks like the email is being generated from the BE server and not the FE server.
 
Under your default routing group make an SMTP connector and put your FE server as the local bridgehead
 
Have made sure the FE server is the bridgehead server and all is working.
Thanks for all your help
 
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