Sendmail as Notes/Exchange switch?

[Charles McCabe]

"Charles McCabe" <mccachar na spamspamspamspam.consultingprof.com> wrote in
message news:...
> OK, no flaming replies, I'm a Sendmail newbie with some mail experience
> looking for the right application.
>
> We are a large, distributed org, roughly half/half Notes/Exchange.  Right
> now we're using the Notes connector, which eventually screws up the format
> of messages bound for Exchange boxes, to route mail where it belongs.  The
> directories are being replicated in both directions, so the Notes servers
> know about the Exchange boxes and vice versa.
>
> What we want to do is use a separate mail switcher to send Notes users'
mail
> to the Notes server and Exchange users' mail to the Exchange server.  It
> seems that Sendmail could do this using LDAP queries to the Notes box.
All
> inbound mail is coming to internetdomain.com.  The Notes server knows each
> user as name na aNotesDomain (a Notes domain, not an Internet domain) or
> name na anExchangeNotesDomain (again, a Notes domain, not an Internet
domain).
>
> So I see it logically working like this:
>
> receieve a message for user na internetdomain.com
> LDAP query to Notes server for user
> if user is @aNotesDomain, send to Notes server
> if user is @anExchangeNotesDomain, send to Exchange server
>
> Is this plausible?  Has anyone done it?  Any advice?  Any configs already
> created?
>
> Thanks,
> Chaz
>
> mccachar na consultingprof.com
>
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