2003 SBS Exchange question

PROLIANT · 25th August 2008

Hello guy's, another question but this time regarding SBS 2003 Exchange server, at the moment we have two companies abc.co.uk and 123.co.uk, all of the email is hosted off-site and we have a make-shift PC/Server running M-Daemon mail server, it collects the email from the off-site host via Domain- POP but I have been tasked with bringing everything back on to our Exchange server which has never been setup, I have only just started my new job as IT Manager and have inherited a mess and I am trying get a handle on it but need some extra tip's off the professionals..you guy's, so I understand that we will have one Active Directory called "abc.co.uk"
and I am familiar with changing the recipient policy for the SMTP server in exchange to allow multiple email domains, however my question leans more to the "out-bound" side of the email system so for those who need two email addresses do I create two user accounts in Active Directory for example "joe@abc.co.uk" with a matching email address for that domain then create a similar account in Active Directory and call it "joe-2@abc.co.uk" and then manually change the default email address to "joe@123.com" this will create the two separate mail boxes and then just add permissions to the mailbox so the person only needs to use the standard "joe@abc.co.uk" AD login.

Please excuse my long-winded question however I just want to make sure that I am doing the right thing here and I trust your professional wisdom to guide me in the right direction.

**ReggieB** · 25th August 2008

No. I am sure that the correct solution is not to create two mailboxes for a user. Instead you need to create an alias for each domain in each mailbox.

I haven't used Exchange for a long time (we too use MDaemon, but as our sole Mailserver). But this is what I'd suggest:

Your main internal domain should be a .local domain. Even something simple like doman.local.

Then your mail server needs to be set up to accept incoming messages for both 123.com and abc.co.uk. Every mailbox that needs to receive mail on both domains will need to have aliases for both domains. So the mailbox george.dawes@domain.local, would have to have aliases of both george.dawes@123.com and george.dawes@abc.co.uk.

In MDaemon, that is quite easy to set up because you can use a couple of global alias: *@123.com to *@domain.local and *@abc.co.uk to *@domain.local. You'll need to look up the best way to do that for Exchange.