I am trying to find out how to forward email to addresses that are unknown on the local exchange server. I am using Exchange Server 2007 (SBS 2008 Std.). For instance I have mydomain.com and have several addresses on the that domain setup on the local server. This server sends out email by way of a smarthost. There are some email addresses on the smarthost that are not on the local exchange server. I want know how to allow the exchange server to send out an email from one of the local exchange server accounts to one of the accounts on the smarthost that is not on the local exchange server. Example: I have me@mydomain.com and I have this account setup on my exchange server as well as the smarthost. I want to send an email from me@mydomain.com to you@mydomain.com. The you@mydomain.com is only setup on the smarthost and exchange server refuses delivery since there is no local account. How can I bypass this? I had it working before with exchange 2003 but am now using exchange 2007.

Hi I'm not sure if I understood the question correct.. You can create a contact with email address: you@externaldomain.com , then on the you@mydomain.com user set up a forward to the contact. In this case the mails will be forwarded to the contact Is that what you were looking for?Jonas Andersson MCTS: Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Configuration | MCITP: EMA | MCSE/MCSA Blog: http://www.testlabs.se/blog

No. The domain is being hosted on a smarthost. Exchange is only used to get the email from the smarthost and send it out via the smarthost. The actual MX record for the domain is the smarhost. The Exchange server has a dynamic IP and is only used as described above. What I need to is to forward unknown addresses to the smarthost even it is the same domain as on the Exchange server. There used to be an easy way to do this on SBS 2003 but now I cannot find a method to do this. Thank you, Jack

There are two parts to this. First, your accepted domain has to be non-authoritative. Enter: Get-AcceptedDomain | Format-List For each of the domains your Exchange server accepts mail for but also routes outside, the DomainType attribute cannot not be set to Authoritative. Authoritative means Exchange owns the mail and bounces mail for which it doesn't have a recipient. Second, make sure you have a send connector that routes address space "*" and/or routes the address space of your domain(s) somewhere. You'll probably want a special send connector for your domain that has a smart host defined to the other mail server for your domain rather than using DNS for that. I believe that will do it for you. -- Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems." . "Make It So" wrote in message news:ba339fce-7834-4533-95b8-1abb8c6feeb1... No. The domain is being hosted on a smarthost. Exchange is only used to get the email from the smarthost and send it out via the smarthost. The actual MX record for the domain is the smarhost. The Exchange server has a dynamic IP and is only used as described above. What I need to is to forward unknown addresses to the smarthost even it is the same domain as on the Exchange server. There used to be an easy way to do this on SBS 2003 but now I cannot find a method to do this. Thank you, Jack Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."

There are two parts to this. First, your accepted domain has to be non-authoritative. Enter: Get-AcceptedDomain | Format-List For each of the domains your Exchange server accepts mail for but also routes outside, the DomainType attribute cannot not be set to Authoritative. Authoritative means Exchange owns the mail and bounces mail for which it doesn't have a recipient. Second, make sure you have a send connector that routes address space "*" and/or routes the address space of your domain(s) somewhere. You'll probably want a special send connector for your domain that has a smart host defined to the other mail server for your domain rather than using DNS for that. I believe that will do it for you. -- Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems." . "Make It So" wrote in message news:ba339fce-7834-4533-95b8-1abb8c6feeb1... No. The domain is being hosted on a smarthost. Exchange is only used to get the email from the smarthost and send it out via the smarthost. The actual MX record for the domain is the smarhost. The Exchange server has a dynamic IP and is only used as described above. What I need to is to forward unknown addresses to the smarthost even it is the same domain as on the Exchange server. There used to be an easy way to do this on SBS 2003 but now I cannot find a method to do this. Thank you, Jack Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems." I have tried everything I can think of using your suggestions and cannot even change the external domain to be externaly routed. I cannot delete it or change it. I really don't know what to try next. Can I post some information here that would assist you in helping me and if so what would it be? Thanks, Jack

What happens when you try? -- Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems." . "Make It So" wrote in message news:c4082ab4-eaa5-4966-996b-eb9eaedd2f3b... There are two parts to this. First, your accepted domain has to be non-authoritative. Enter: Get-AcceptedDomain | Format-List For each of the domains your Exchange server accepts mail for but also routes outside, the DomainType attribute cannot not be set to Authoritative. Authoritative means Exchange owns the mail and bounces mail for which it doesn't have a recipient. Second, make sure you have a send connector that routes address space "*" and/or routes the address space of your domain(s) somewhere. You'll probably want a special send connector for your domain that has a smart host defined to the other mail server for your domain rather than using DNS for that. I believe that will do it for you. -- Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems." "Make It So" wrote in message news:ba339fce-7834-4533-95b8-1abb8c6feeb1... No. The domain is being hosted on a smarthost. Exchange is only used to get the email from the smarthost and send it out via the smarthost. The actual MX record for the domain is the smarhost. The Exchange server has a dynamic IP and is only used as described above. What I need to is to forward unknown addresses to the smarthost even it is the same domain as on the Exchange server. There used to be an easy way to do this on SBS 2003 but now I cannot find a method to do this. Thank you, Jack Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems." I have tried everything I can think of using your suggestions and cannot even change the external domain to be externaly routed. I cannot delete it or change it. I really don't know what to try next. Can I post some information here that would assist you in helping me and if so what would it be? Thanks, Jack Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."