two domains, two subnets, two sbs servers, one email address

can this be made to work:

two domains on seperate subnets, each running a SBS 2003 and exchange server
receiving email for the same external domain but for different users. For
example is on one server and
is on the other serve.

 

Yes.

Just for the sake of clarity, the SBS servers will need to be in separate
domains.

You also need to make sure that broadcasts for DHCP are not being forwarded
between the 2 subnets.

You can configure each domain to process mail for the same external domain
the way you normally would in SBS (CEICW, default recipient policy, etc.).

The mail would have to come in to one of the servers (whichever one the MX
record pointed to) and then in the Messages tab of the properties of the
Default SMTP Virtual Server of the one the mail first goes to, specify the
IP or FQDN of the other SBS server. (You don't want to configure it that
way on both servers because you could get ito a mail forwarding loop.)

You can also configure conditional forwarders in the properties of the DNS
server for each domain to point to the other SBS to resolve queries for its
domain.

Jim Martin - (MSFT)

Microsoft Corporation

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excellent I was just finding some info on this, and as you said for the sake
of clarity let me ask you this:

you do mean the "forward all mail with unresolved recipients to host:" field
correct?

thanks!

Chris.

 

In a reliable and predictable manner? Just about.

Would I do this? Absolutely not.

I would run subdomains for the email: and


Much easier to understand and manage.