Sendmail to Exchange server

[Jeff Paciolla]

I have seen lots of answers on how to get sendmail to send to an Exchange server. I have added the host name to the sendmail.cf file and to my host file. I have stopped and stated sendmail numerous times.

When I test by typing
sendmail -v abc@hostname.com
test
.
I receive the following:
abc@hostname.com... Connecting to hostname via relay...
abc@hostname.com... Deferred: Connection refused by hostname

Any help in figuring out this error would be greatly appreiciated

Thanks
Jeff

[Jeff Paciolla]

I have just learned that my exchange server is not runnimg SMTP. Does this need to be running for sendmail to be able to connect with the exchange server.

Thanks
Jeff

[Dave Kelly_1]

Yes. You need to have the Internet Mail connector running on your Exchange server before sendmail can work with it.

[David Rodman]

When you get the internet mail connector going you will need to check the smtp adsresses are what you want.
The defaults are not always in the form you stated in the first message.

[Jeff Paciolla]

Thanks for everybodys help. After pointing to an exchange server running SMTP everything worked fine.

Thanks again
Jeff

[Bob Bell_1]

I am not sure if by SMTP you are referring to the Exchange IMS Connector. Just remember that SMTP and the IMS on Exchange are two different animals accepting monitoroing the same TCP Port. You can cause yourself grief running Exchangewith IMS AND SMTP.. Just an FYI.