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Example of using SMTP to route mail within the local Internet domain
Enabling SMTP routing in the local domain

In this example, Acme users send messages in the acme.com domain (internal messages) over SMTP. Mail1, Mail2, and Mail3 are IBM® Lotus® Domino® mail servers with "SMTP allowed within the local Internet domain" enabled for "MIME messages only" on the Router/SMTP-Basic tab of the Configuration Settings document that applies to the servers and have the SMTP listener task enabled on the Basics tab of their Server documents. This allows the servers to send mail to each other over SMTP and to receive mail over SMTP.

The servers must be in the same Notes named network, based on TCP/IP, to route mail unless each server has the field "Servers within the local Domino domain are reachable via SMTP over TCPIP" set to Always in the Configuration Settings document that applies to it.

If a user sends a MIME message to another user in the acme.com domain, her mail server determines which server the recipient's mail file is on, connects to that server over TCP/IP, and transfers the message using SMTP. If the message is in IBM® Lotus® Notes® format, the message is routed using Notes routing.

Configuring these servers requires:

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