Forwarded Mail Is Rejected   

I have an Exchange 2003 server and I am trying to forward mail to an external 
recipient.  I have setup a contact in Active Directory and forwarded mail to 
the contact.  It works fine when sent from an internal recipient, but when 
mail comes in from the outside it will not be forwarded and a NDR is 
generated.  The reason appears to be that the server is trying to relay the 
messages to the contact's external address instead of sending from the 
server, and since my smtp server does not allow relaying, the message is 
rejected.  

I need to have exchange forward the messages with a from address of 
someone@mydomain.com.  

Please help.

date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 09:48:02 -0800   author:   Rocky

Re: Forwarded Mail Is Rejected   

1. Create a new SMTP Connector.
2. On the Address Space tab add the domain you want to forward the mail to.
3. At the bottom there's a check box "Allow messages to be relayed to these 
domains." Check that box.

The same thing can be setup on the SMTP Virtual Server on the Access tab, 
then Relay, click Add, then select domain and add the domain. I don't 
recommend configuring it there because server performance is affected 
because DNS reverse lookup are performed on each connection.

260973 Setting up SMTP domains for inbound and relay e-mail in Exchange 2000 
Server and in Exchange Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;260973

265293 How to configure the SMTP connector in Exchange 200x
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;265293

Thanks,
Fitz Crittle

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"Rocky"  wrote in message 
news:26AD4880-690E-4020-8A76-5774F5D0A35E@microsoft.com...
>I have an Exchange 2003 server and I am trying to forward mail to an 
>external
> recipient.  I have setup a contact in Active Directory and forwarded mail 
> to
> the contact.  It works fine when sent from an internal recipient, but when
> mail comes in from the outside it will not be forwarded and a NDR is
> generated.  The reason appears to be that the server is trying to relay 
> the
> messages to the contact's external address instead of sending from the
> server, and since my smtp server does not allow relaying, the message is
> rejected.
>
> I need to have exchange forward the messages with a from address of
> someone@mydomain.com.
>
> Please help.

date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 12:23:53 -0600   author:   Fitz Crittle [MSFT]