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Recieving Mail From Two Seperate Domains

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by simplebob

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Hello all, our company bought out another companies assets and changed the company name. So now we have two domain names. Right now we have a Windows box setup with Small Business Server running Exchange to receive mail for our new company name. However, we still want to receive mail from the old company name that was hosted on GoDaddy. Is there a way to setup our Exchange server to receive mail from both domain names?

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by simplebob

I was thinking that I would need to add that to the user properties but right now our email (from the old company name) is being taken care of by a site called bluetie.com. We were hoping to drop them and just make have our Exchange server take over. It seems to me that we would have to do something like add a MX record in our DNS and have our registrar point to our IP address or something like that.

by cactus pete

You will need to change your DNS entry to accommodate the IP destination change - the MX record. It can take up to 2-3 days to propagate throughout the internet, but should take place much faster in most cases.

(Many mail servers will cache DNS when possible.)

You might want to have all mail from the host forwarded to the new IP. You should be able to test this by adding a subdomain to your new installation and editing the settings for a given user at the old host. If not, just make the MX change Friday night and everything should be OK Monday morning.

by churdoo

...is right on the money. Do what he said in both responses.

Additionally, if the bluetie email is POP3 based, you can, for an interim measure, use the POP3 Connector in your Small Biz Server and start receiving that email in your new company exchange mailboxes right now.

The other thing this will do, will be to ease the cutover when you do switch your MX records to take over the delivery of said emails yourselves (and I agree that you should switch and take delivery on your own Small Biz Server). Just leave the POP3 connector running for, oh say about a week after you do the cutover, before shutting it off, and you'll still receive email from straggling slow-to-propogate sending servers that end up still delivering to the bluetie mailboxes.

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