Need Help with IMS routing

[Woody74]

Hi

I'm new to the forum, but hope someone can give me some advice....

Background :
- Our company has two sites (A & B), each has an Exchange 5.5 server in our company exchange site.
- There is a network link between the sites for local email delivery
- The sites were joined together following a merger, so both sites have their own internet pipe and email domain. External email goes out our from both servers, each has it's own IMS connector.

Issue:
Company now wants to save some money by closing an internet pipe at A, all external email from A will route in/out down the network link and out of the site B.
- We have moved site A's MX record to point to the site B's server, this works ok - incoming email is routing fine

BUT how do I direct outbound messages from A to go out through server B? I changed the IMS connector on the server A to "forward" messages to B, but they bounce right away.

My question is, do I actually still need A's IMS connector? If I remove it, will the outgoing messages use B's IMS connector?

Cheers,
Colin.

 

[zbnet]

Probably. It's all to do with SMTP address space, and the routing for the domains you create on the remaining IMS routing tab.