mail server in windows server 2003

[Swiftie]

Hope I'm not jacking the thread but I'll try and ask this in here as I've been trying to learn about something myself about exchange.

What I would like to do is to be able to to host a 2nd domain on an exchange server so that a user can send and receieve emails from multiple accounts via his outlook. So lets say we have a user with an email such as joe.bloggs@abc.com (Make this his default work email). But he also works for another company and this additional email address on there is joe.bloggs@xyz.com

My understanding is only one domain can be the default for a user and all "reply to" information will reflect this domain. But I want to be able to allow the user to select which domain he's using (default + additional) to send email and to be able to also receive.

This can be done via POP by having the separate accounts setup and Outlook will automatically send the reply through the account it came in on and for new messages you can select which account to use in the client. I want the same scenario but under Exchange 2003.

Help :cry:

[sc302 Veteran]

this is easy.....sort of.

In this scenerio you would have to have 2 accounts, one anwsering and recieving on one email domain and one answering and recieving on the other domain. On the one (the one less frequently used or the second one) you would have to give full access to the original user and you would also have to give the send as permission.

Managing the accounts into outlook for sake of being easy to understand who the mail is coming to, you would go into the advanced properties of the exchange mailbox (within outlook mail properties) and open an additional mailbox. Technically you could also forward mail to the original user and make up rules to any mail going to new user to go into new user folder in the originating mailbox.

Please let me know if that helps or if you need more explaination. If you want pm me and we can go through it step by step.

[paxa]

Unholee, no i don't have and internet domain from any internet registar, has i said this project was meant to learn about windows server 2003 and exchange server, to see if i could setup an standalone mail server capable of sending mails and recieving them without an outside resource, but i'm seeing that it's not that's not possible.

i've been searching a little bit more and see if i could use no-ip services to host the mail server, see if using a free host i could set it up in order to use the mail server, but i'm having some troubles finding if it supports this.

Edited December 19, 2009 by paxa

[sc302 Veteran]

the short answer is no.

technically it should work, reality you will not be able to send mail to anyone with a spam filter.

go to mxtoolbox.com, go to the blacklist tab, type in your outside ip address. (if you don't know what it is go to www.ipchicken.com it will display your current outside ip address). I don't host mail and I am on 2 blacklist servers for just being in a dhcp pool from my isp. anyone using a spam filter will see this and deny your mail from entering their domain before it even gets a chance to hit the mailbox that the mail is intended for.