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TomJerzey · Guest

I was hoping someone could give me a hand with a little dilema I have. I
have 2 email domains. @VNK.com and @VNK-IT.com
The second is going to be our new domain name. We are going to be doing a
cut over from the old system (this is not an Exchange server, it is an
"imail" server) to the new system. Here is what I'd like to be able to do.

We are doing a phased rollout to each users desktop that will take a couple
of weeks.
So we were hoping to forward all emails coming into the new domain name
space (@VNK-IT.com) to the old imail server (forward via Exchange 2003, which
is the new server platform).
Is Exchange 2003 capable of forwading SMTP messages to another external
email address? Is this best done by setting up a contact?
I have already created my user base, will this complicate matters?
I hope this is enough info to go on. Thank you greatly for your expertise
in advance.

Glen Trafford · Guest

Create a user in the new email domain, create a contact with the old email
domain email address and on the user AD properties, Exchange General,
Delivery Options, forward to the contact. Just before the user is migrated
onto the new server delete the contact (thus stopping forwarding). I would
then plan to reverse the forwarding ie the old domain forwards to the new
domain - not sure of the capabilities of the imail server. I would also
script this if you have large number of users.

When all users have been migrated to the new server remove the old server,
update any mx records etc. Then add the old domain to the Exchange server as
an inbound domain and then add each user's old email address as secondary
SMTP to their AD account. Of course if you do not want backward
compatibility of the email domain you could ignore this part.

Glen

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