Duplicate domain names

[robrichardson]

Hi

I've just finished setting up my exchange server and everything seems OK although one problem still remains.

We currently have an AD forest, the root being company.com and one branch domain branch.company.com. the branch.compan y.com users are using the exchange server however at the moment there is no requirement for the top level to use email, this is a totally seperate domain at a different site (eventually it will be incorporated into the forest).

The problem starts when somebody from the branch.company.com domain tries to send an email to the company.com domain, exchange wants to send the email locally however this needs to be sent out onto the internet and eventually be resolved to the remote site.

I've tried putting various IP addresses (for example our ISPs SMTP address) into the "forward unresolved hosts" field however the emails seem to remain in the queue.

Any ideas where I'm going wrong?

 

[wyzard]

Hi,

Okay, I need a little more information.

How many Exchange servers are you running? And if you are running only one, which portion of the forest is it installed in (it sounds as if it is in the child domain)? Are you trying to implement 2 email domains on one server? Does your ISP provide a portion of your email connectivity (do they provide the company.com service)?

Let me know.

Wyz