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Mail relaying and Exchange Server 5.5

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by johnj 1 view

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Help -- before the rest of my hair turns gray!

Recently I closed an open mail relay on our school's Exchange Server. For the last few months, we have been using a portal administered by a local outfit. Until I closed the open mail relay, the portal enabled our faculty and students to read, reply and send e-mail through the portal to and from our Exchange Server. Now we can read the server's mail, but not send or reply.
I added the portal's IP address to the list of permitted routing hosts in the IMS config window, but it didn't help. When I have been able to get the portal to route the mail, I also end up opening the mail relay again. So I am a little frustrated. Microsoft's technical papers have not been helpful.

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by johnj

My e-mail address is johnj@iglou.com or wheaton@stfrancishighschool.com.

by jayanth

I didnt understand your properly. what is it that you are trying to do?

Do you want to stop relaying mails from your Exchange Server directly and want your portal to resolve the domain names and then in turn send the mails?

For a more clearerunderstanding and configuring your IMS, follow this excellent link at
"http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_smtp_imc_ims.htm"

This link gives detail steps on how to configure the IMS, and in steps 3 & 4 lies the solution to your problem. Hope thishelps you. If you need any more info, feel free to contact me at vasishtj@netscape.net.

by johnj

jayanth gave me useful advice once i cleared up what i needed. all is well now.

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