[plug] Linux Mailserver

madco madco at iinet.net.au
Mon Mar 26 06:39:34 WST 2001


Thanks Tony, I will try that today (Monady) as soon as I get into the office.

At 10:28 25/03/2001 +0800, you wrote:
>On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, madco wrote:
>
> > I am trying to set up Linux as a mail server for both local and external
> > e-mail. I am using SuSE 7.0 and seem to have a problem when it comes to
> > send the mails from the windows machines with Exchange running. The problem
> > is that the main Server, which is a WIN NT 4.0 box has to be set up as a
> > Mail Server in Exchange on the Clients for the company scheduler to work.
> > Therefore I cannot seem to send email through the Linux server, instead it
> > goes to the Windows Server and just bounces back from there when the e-mail
> > is directed to an outside e-mail address.
>
>If reconfiguring the client isn't an option then you should be able to tell
>the exchange box to use a "smart host".  This means that all mail the excahnge
>host can't (or wont) deal with will get directed to the linux box which it
>will merily send on its way to the outside world.
>
>HTH
>
>Yours Tony.
>
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