Proper Process on Adding Second Domain to Mailboxes

[yarym]

Hello! My main domain is abc.com, but some of my users require a differenct domain for their email addresses so we also have efg.com. I recently moved my Internet connector from 5.5 to 2003 and mail to the second domain started to bounce back with a message that relaying was not allowed. What should I do to allow these messages to go through? I thought that if users have the second email address with efg.com domain would be enough, but I guess I need to specify at the connector somewhere the second domain. Can someone please let me know.
Thank You!

 

[PScottC]

Add efg.com to the default recipient policy on the 2003 side.

PSC

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[yarym]

Yes, but if I add that to the default policy, then everyone in my org will get that second domain address. Also, those people need efg.com domain as their Primary Emails.

 

[llevon]

Hi,

Create a 'new' recipient poicy rather than adding the address to your default policy. You can then use a filter to determine which AD Users recive this policy. By placing its priority higher than the default you can make ther primary SMTP the new address and the filter stops it applying to the other users.

Regards,

Llevon

PS There are many ways to define the filter, one is to create a group called new mail domain and apply the filter to members of that group.

 

[PScottC]

The easiest way is to define a "common" field in the user account, like "Company" to select your special set of users. Then define your query to search for users who have that field defined.

If you are set on using a security group in AD, I can give you a query that you can use.

PSC

Governments and corporations need people like you and me. We are samurai. The keyboard cowboys. And all those other people out there who have no idea what's going on are the cattle. Mooo! --Mr. The Plague, from the movie "Hackers

 

[llevon]

PScott is correct that adding a common description to a users field makes for an easy filter to apply. That is how I did it for one customer.

Whatever you put in there has to be identical for all users. If you have a lot of users then a quick way to do it without scripting it is to use the tool ADModify. This will update all selected accounts in one go.

Cheers,

Llevon