ozzy

Hi,

We have been using a X.400 connector to connect to of our Exchange sites together across a Dial-up ISDN connection.

We are moving over to VPN, but in the meantime we wanted to use the IMS connector to send/receive e-mails between sites. The IMS is already in-place handling all our external mail.

I have it working (to a sort); if I send an e-mail to one of our users in our remote site, the SMTP TO: field has IMCEAEX-_O=***+20CONSULTING_OU=****_cn=****_cn=****@***.co m, so our non-Exchange SMTP server doesn't recognise the recipient (as theses are defined as ****@****.com)

Is there any way of rewriting the TO: field automatically to strip out the native Exchange addressing format ???

Stefan

fast bloke

How many users? You could do this using aliases, or you could write a script to strip the first part of the format. We usually end up paying consultants about a grand a day to do exchange scripting, as you can't afford live tests or small errors

ozzy

Not a lot of users <100. The problem is that because our two sites are in the same Organization, then Exchange uses the Distinguished Name, rather than the SMTP address.

This wouldn't be a problem if our site communicated directly with the remote Exchange server, but all Internet mail gets routed through a Sendmail server first and that's where the mail gets bounced.

Perhaps it would be easier for the Sendmail server to strip the extra bumf from the TO: field and just leave the internet domain name.

Stefan