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by shanghai sam

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I am running Exchange 5.5 on a 2000 Server w/AD. We merged w/another company and we are taking on the new companys domain. I want (ex. John Doe) jdoe@oldcompany.com email to be forwarded to our other location to john.doe@newcompany.org We are using different ISP's. Also our other location is using the ISP's email server and their email is sent to their location to a third party email software, then the internal users pull their email from that server. The user at the other location is using Outlook 2000. Now if I setup Outlook Express at the other location I can retrieve email from our server (jdoe@oldcompany.com) and from their internal third party email server. But if I setup though Outlook I now get a rejected password or username message. That just started when I updated from NT 4.0 to 2000. So basically I want users from both locations to recieve email from old domain and new domain. I would also like to in addition to hosting oldcompany.com to host newcompany.com on the same exchange server, and have users from this location and our other location to get mail. Without that rejected username or password message using outlook. Thanks

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by jereg

If I get this right, You want your exchange server to host newdomain.com as well as olddomain.com and then do away with olddomaon.com. Right? You want to send email from olddomain server to newdomain server for users to retrive? I don't think I haveall the answers to your questions, but let me stab at it. You need to talk to your ISP, but you can give your Exchange server as many domain names as you want. I have three domains on mine. The ISP needs to give you the rights to newdomain.com. Theyneed to change the MX record. This changes the IP address from their server to the IP address of your Exchange server. Then you need to add an alias to your user accounts. In my case, my boss gets mail as jdoe@abc.com, jdoe@efg.com and jdoe@xyz.com.My boss just liked several domain names, so we regestered them, and he gets mail from 3 domain names.
That is probably the easist way do what you want. You can then have your users send out mail saying that in 90 days or whatever, their mail will be changed to newdomain.com and to start using that address. Users at newdomain can be given accounts on your Exchange server and configured to have Outlook 2000 point to a remote mail server. I have branch offices of 4 users each and I just set Outlook 2k to loginto our main office. Just be sure to set the host file on their PC's with the IP address of the mail server.
Hope that helps.

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