Creating a Foreign domain document

A Foreign domain document defines the path between a Domino domain and an external application, such as a fax or pager gateway. A Foreign domain document identifies the Domino server that acts as the gateway to the external application.

Although Foreign domains are mostly used for third party applications, you can also use them to transfer messages between a Release 5.0 or later server and a Release 3.x SMTP server.

Restrictions that you set on this Foreign domain document apply only to the From domain of the previous hop. These restrictions work in conjunction with those in the Configuration Settings document. Domino always defaults to the most restrictive entry.

To create a Foreign domain document

1. From the Domino Administrator, click the Configuration tab and then expand the Messaging section.

2. Choose Domains.

3. Click Add Domain to create a new Domain document.

4. Click the Basics tab, and complete these fields:

Field	Enter
Domain type	Choose Foreign domain.
Foreign Domain Name	The domain name of the foreign mail system. This name was chosen when the MTA or gateway was installed.
Domain description	An optional description of the gateway or MTA.

5. Click the Restrictions tab, and then complete these fields:

Field	Enter
Allow mail only from domains	The names of Domino domains that are allowed to route messages to this foreign domain. Leave this field blank to allow any domain to route mail through the local domain to the foreign domain.
Deny mail from domains	The names of Domino domains that are not allowed to route messages to this foreign domain. Leave this field blank to allow any domain to route mail through the local domain to the foreign domain.

6. Click the Mail Information tab and complete these fields, and then save the document:

Field	Enter
Gateway server name	The name of the Domino server running the gateway software.
Gateway mail filename	The gateway's mail file name. See the documentation that came with the gateway for the proper file name.

7. Create a Connection document to specify how servers in the current domain connect to the foreign domain.

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