I have a client with two offices, both running SBS 2K. Each have been
running separate domains for mail. The client would now like to utilize a
single domain for email.
To that end, I have set up the larger of the two offices with the new
preferred domain for mail. At that same office, I have setup users which
correspond to users at the smaller office. These users forward to contacts
with email addresses that match those of the users at the smaller office,
using its original mail domain.
All seems to work fairly well, but the client would like the "reply" or
"from" on emails sent from clients in the smaller office to match that of
the new preferred domain name, rather than the original mail domain for that
office.
I tried adding the new preferred domain name to recipient policy in the
smaller office and making it primary, but not authoritative. That seemed to
work for outside email, but the users in the smaller office could not reply
to users at the larger office. The emails were rejected because the users
could not be found, I assume because the smaller office was looking within
itself for those larger office addresses. It has occurred to me to try
setting the default email addresses at the individual user level, rather
than through recipient policy, but I am not very confident this will do much
good.
Does anybody have a workaround for my problem or a better way to achieve my
goal? Thanks for any help or insight.
Joe Welna