Domain (with same name) Issues

[FNBIT]

Hello All,

I have an interesting situation. We have a franchise and just started to host our own exchange server on a SBS 2003 Server. Everything works fine except when we want to send an email to another franchise office. Since I put in the domain that is the same as the home office's domain, when I send an email to another person out of the office, it errors out since it cannot find the user in our domain. I need all outgoing emails to be from this domain, yet I want users outside of this office (but in the same domain) to receive their email. How can I configure this?

Thanks!

 

[FNBIT]

I think I may have come up with my own answer. This is only a decent solution for small business (such as those using SBS). Larger companies would have their own domain anyways.

I have not tried it out fully yet but I can go into "Active Directory Users and Computers" then under the users properties set an SMTP email address under EMail Address to what they want the system to send out as then make it their primary.

Then under System Manager -> Recipients -> Recipient Polocies -> Default Policy Properties and remove the domain or change it to something else. In this case I will be using the POP3 connector to get the incoming email so this does not matter for a little while. Later we will have a dummy domain that all of our email will be forwarded to.

I have tried the first part and it will send out as another domain name this way. If it does not work then I will let you all know.

 

[Zelandakh]

In siteA, set the SiteB staff on a recipient policy to have email address domain.local rather than domain.com.

Repeat the other way round too.

Create a bidirectional SMTP connector to push domain.local to the other box.