Re: Email Domain Alias

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From: Travis Lingenfelder (TravisLingenfelder_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:33:04 -0700

Using the whitepaper below, I was able to get everything working. I have
aliases for both domains and users. I used the POP3 console to create the
primary domain and mailboxes for that domain. Once this was done, I used the
POP3 console to create the secondary domain without any mailboxes. Then,
from the command prompt in the Inetpub\Mailroot\Mailbox directory, I copied
the directory structure (Mailboxes) from the primary domain to the secondary
domain using the xcopy command the /t switch. This made identical mailboxes
in both domains. Once the directory structure was in place, I used the LINKD
command from the windows server resource kit to create hard links between the
mailbox directories of both domains (see the whitepaper below). Using the
same method I was able to create aliases of all kinds (i.e. webmaster,
postmaster) that pointed to other user mailboxes (directories). My next step
is to script this so that the creation/deletion of future user's mailboxes
will be greatly simplified.

Now, if I can only create aliases that will distribute to multiple
mailboxes........

"Kristofer Gafvert" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Here's the whitepaper on email aliasing
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/advmail.mspx
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Kristofer Gafvert
> http://www.ilopia.com
>
>
> "Travis Lingenfelder" <Travis Lingenfelder@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
> in message news:C72B895B-4017-439C-A32C-5FC9594D2615@microsoft.com...
> > I have two domains, lets call them primary.com and secodary.com. I am
> using
> > the SMTP and POP3 services of Windows Server 2003. In this IIS / SMTP
> > console I have primary.com setup as Local(Custom) (The FQDN of the host
> > server is Local(Default)) and secondary.com setup as the Local(Alias).
> The
> > domain primary.com is the same name as my Active Directory Domain. Emails
> > addressed to users in the form user@primary.com are being routed to the
> > proper mailbox. However, emails addressed to user@secondary.com are all
> > being put into the Mailroot\Drop folder. I want emails addressed to
> > user@primary.com and user@secondary.com to go into the same mailbox. I
> read
> > on Scott Forsyth's WebLog
> > (http://weblogs.asp.net/owscott/archive/2004/01/25/62822.aspx) that this
> is
> > possible doing a search on Microsoft's website for some configuration
> > scripts, but I can not find the scripts.
> >
> > Can anyone help me get this working?
> >
> > Travis Lingenfelder
>
>
>

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