Re: Shared SMTP Domain Name by Javier
Javier
Wed Apr 14 16:15:21 CDT 2004
Hi Reda!
I would like to start by saying that what you want to do is not trivial at
all. There was a discussion sometime ago on what's the best way to acomplish
this and I don't think we ever came up with a way. Unless you are willing to
add something to distinguish the two offices I'm not sure how you could
acomplish it (i.e @office1.domain.com and @office2.domain.com).
In any event, this is what you are trying to do know (or at least what I
think you are trying to do):
1) Point your MX records to the server on Office1 (mail1.yourdomain.com)
2) Set the Exchange on Office1 to "Forward all mail with unresolved
recipients" to Office2 (mail2.yourdomain.com).
At this point all mail coming in from the internet or Office1 should reach
its intended recipient and the server at Office2 will issue an NDR if the
mailbox doesn't exist in either server. The only problem is that Office2
cannot send mail to Office1.
To solve this there may be a way to tell Exchange to forward mail (creating
a new SMTP connector) for the specific addresses existing on Office 1, but I
don't know it. You cannot simply tell the Office2 server to forward all mail
to Office1 because you will create a loop for addresses that don't exists on
either server. You see the problem?
BTW-> How many accounts are we talking about in each server?
--
Javier [SBS MVP]
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"Reda Hanna" <rahanna@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:BC7A224C-8AA0-4AD1-8BEF-CF184EDCD444@microsoft.com...
>
> I have a SBS-2000 fully setup and everything was working fine ...
>
> A week ago, I tried to follow Microsoft Article # 321721 to Share SMTP
> Address Space for the Company (company.com) to enable the e-mail
> communication to a remote office which has another SBS-2000 fully
> configured as bothe offices use the same @company.com address ...
>
> At Office-1, I followed Method-1, which involved adding a new SMTP
> Connector and adjusting what Exchange 2000 should Authoratitive for, it
> didn't work correctly .... And I wasn't able to send any emails from
> Office-1 to Office-2 ... I went back with the settings to keep everything
> as it was before ...
>
> At Office-2, I decided to used the Second Method, which is simply to add
> to the Default SMTP Virtual Server the Mail Host (mail.company.com) that
> should handle unresolved addresses ... It worked fine and I was able to
> send without any problems from Oddice-2 to Office-1 ...
>
> So, I decided to do this method at Office-1 .... It doesn't want to work
> ... No NDR messages ... Anf I can see under the Queues of the Default SMTP
> Virtual Server a Connector saying
> "SmallBusiness SMTP connector (SMTP Connector - Remote delivery)"
> The messages are just hanging there ...
>
> I don't know what;s wrong with the SBS-2000 at Office-1 ... Is there any
> thing that I forget to correct in when I rolled-back the steps of Method-1
> ...
>
> Appreciate your help ...
>
> Reda Hanna
>
>