Topic: Forwarding Email

[Jason Ephraims]

I have a company that has 3 sites and is currently running 3 exchange servers. they have one domain in which everybody receives emails. Now this is the trickey part. The isp has set up for them the three diffrent subdomains at the isp eg town1.company.com town2.company.com town3.company.com and in each of these domains they have the users set up at the isp at so when an email comes in gets dumped into the postmaster of whaterver subdomain the user exists. the exchange server then collects the mail and sorts it per location. But in the orgainsiation itself when they send an email they just send it to the main address xxx.company.com and it gets to the wright person. What i need to know is how to set up a rule that when an email address does not exist on the local domain (local sme) it sends the email to the isp so it will get sorted there and sent to the wright user.
This all sounds a bit crazy and any help would be great

[Jason Ephraims]

Is there a rule which states if no user forward email

[vj]

is this a ms exchange question?

vj

[Jason Ephraims]

No a how to do this with sme instead of using there currnet exchange server

[SloopJohnB]

**Setup SME server as company.com
**create 3 hostnames in server mgr, town1, town2, town3 (setup as local, publish globally, and point to the right IP addresses for town1,2&3)
**Setup users in company.com and also on the server receiving (town1 or 2, or 3)
**sutup clients pop3 account to check at town1.company.com
**From Company.com Manually forward each email address to their respective exchange server (ie, bo@company.com may be forwarded to bo@town1.company.com jan@company.com may be forwarded to jan@town2.company.com...)
**The end result should be that if you send and email either to the name@company.com or name@town1.company.com it will be routed to the correct server.
**Make sure ISP directs all traffic to the SME server to route the traffic.
**The sme server (or Excahange server for that matter) should know when to send outbound traffic not destined for your network, this should be a moot point. If you have trouble, use smart host feature and point to an SMTP server outside your network.

This is my amature opinion, tell me if you think this is what you wanted...?

SloopJohnB

[Bob King]

Making the following Assumptions:
A. You just want to replace the 3 exchange servers with SME
B. You want the ISP to continue processing mail to the 3 sub-domains
C. The DNS MX records all point to the ISP mail server

try the following.

1. Set-up all three SME servers with the primary domain "company.com"
2. At town1 set-up a virtual domain "town1.company.com"
3. At town2 set-up a virtual domain "town2.company.com"
4. At town3 set-up a virtual domain "town3.company.com"
5. Set all 3 SME servers to use the IPS's SMTP server. This is done in server-manger under "Other e-mail settings" by setting the "Internet provider's SMTP server"
6. At each location only set-up users for that location

[Bob King]

Further to my previous post, you need to do some additional research.

Check with your ISP to determine how mail is delivered to each exchange server:
a. Sent automatically
b. Stored in a mailbox for collection

If b you will need to know how to collect it:
a. ETRN
b. multi-drop

You should also check the settings of the existing exchange servers for clues such as the domain name each one uses and the mail collection method they use.

In any case it shouldn't be a difficult set-up if you do the research first and get all the information before you start. Your ISP should be willing to help.

Good Luck