Ok, I think I know what is going on here but I need help on how to fix it.
I have two Exchange 2000 Servers configured. They are both hosting mailboxes for our SMTP email domain name mycompany.com. I have them in seperate routing groups, "Front End" and "Back End".
In both routing groups I have a Routing Group Connector configured to transfer messages back and forth. In the "Front End" routing group, I have a SMTP connector configured for our Internet mail. This connector is set to resolve messages by DNS for the address space "*" (it's my understanding that this will route messages to any domain, including our own mycompany.com, through this connector.)
As you may have already figured out, I can send mail from the server in the Back End routing group to the server in the Front End, but I can't send the other way. I am betting that the emails from the server in the Front End are being routed through the SMTP Connector to the Internet, which is pointing the message right back to the same server. Is there any way I can override this for our domain (mycompany.com) so that mail with this address space goes through the Routing Group connector? Maybe there's a way to exclude mail from mycompany.com on the SMTP connector?
Any help will be appreciated.
-Tim Nichols
I have two Exchange 2000 Servers configured. They are both hosting mailboxes for our SMTP email domain name mycompany.com. I have them in seperate routing groups, "Front End" and "Back End".
In both routing groups I have a Routing Group Connector configured to transfer messages back and forth. In the "Front End" routing group, I have a SMTP connector configured for our Internet mail. This connector is set to resolve messages by DNS for the address space "*" (it's my understanding that this will route messages to any domain, including our own mycompany.com, through this connector.)
As you may have already figured out, I can send mail from the server in the Back End routing group to the server in the Front End, but I can't send the other way. I am betting that the emails from the server in the Front End are being routed through the SMTP Connector to the Internet, which is pointing the message right back to the same server. Is there any way I can override this for our domain (mycompany.com) so that mail with this address space goes through the Routing Group connector? Maybe there's a way to exclude mail from mycompany.com on the SMTP connector?
Any help will be appreciated.
-Tim Nichols