Hoping there are some MS 2003 Exchange guru’s about who can help me with a strange config. I have a customer who has two different offices in two different cities. At each office they are running a domain using 2003 SBS, with exchange on it. They have two different (.local) domains, we’ll call them domain1.local and domain2.local.
So, obviously they have two distinct Windows domains here, with two different sets of users. However, they only have one internet domain and as far as I can tell only one MX record. IOW, you could have a user called something like user1@domain1.local at one site and a user called user2@domain2.local at the other, but their email address would be user1@mxdomain.org and user2@mxdomain.org…the external domain name is the same. I haven’t worked out exactly how their DNS is working externally at this point (two different public IP gateways after all)…still trying to track that down. My guess is that they have different pointer records for individual users, some pointing to one office and some to the other, depending on which office the user is at.
At any rate, what I need to do is forward email from a user account on one domain to a user account on the other. What I originally tried to do was create a contact record that simply had the name and email address of a user on the other domain in it. However, the effect of this was that anyone trying to send email to either account was getting a bounce back message. Still not sure why that happened, but deleting the contact object ‘fixed’ the problem.
What I need is some way to simply forward the email from a user on domain1.local to an email account on domain2.local that won’t, hopefully, take down her email. Any ideas?
-XT