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Two Exchange Servers in different locations and domains

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fdoty

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Sep 24, 2002
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We have two offices. One in Texas, and one in London. The domains are not trusted or joined together although there is a VPN between them.

We wanted to share the same domain between them and here is how we accomplished that so far.
domainone.com is in London and is the server responsible for domainone.com email.
Domaintwo.com is in Texas and is responsible for that. We created Alias in Texas for domainone.com but did not make it responsible for that domain in the recipient policy. Therefore if someone has the same email address domain, it uses DNS to send it to London. When email comes in for a user to London that is located in Texas for Domainone.com, it forwards to the contact domaintwo.com and delivers via DNS.

The problem we are having? In London, they have a public folder that is email enabled. The Texas office gets a bounce back msg from the mail server saying it can't accept the msg. It works fine in London. If we delete the forwarding in London, then it works all the way around, except the Texas office doesn't get email.

This is very perplexing. Does anyone have a better way to send email back and forth and "share" a domain name between two exchange servers that are not in the same AD Domain?

Freddy
 
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