First of all, apologies for the long delay in between posts! I am discovering that with an almost-11 month old, weeks go by like DAYS!

Anyway, out of all the projects I've been doing lately, one of them has been to add an additional email domain to a Domino server.

There's no shortage of misconceptions about this, so let's examine what's really involved.

First and foremost, let's clear up one very common misconception: the email (SMTP) domain is NOT the same as your Domino Domain. Your Domino domain shouldn't end in a ".com", and is used to control internal mail routing and the Domino directory.

1. Register your additional domain name.

2. Point the MX records to your Domino server, or a SPAM filtering service.

3. Now is a good time to send an email to those in your company whose address will be changing!

4. Add the domain as an alias in your Domino server's Global Domain document.
(Conversions tab --> "Alternate Internet domain aliases" field).

5. As of now, that's really all you need to do. If my domain is "solacelearning.com", and I add a new domain of  "solaceconsulting.com", if my shortname is "jstratton", then I can now receive email from both 'jstratton@solacelearning.com', and 'jstratton@solaceconsulting.com'. 

Of course, my RETURN address will still be whichever address is in the Internet Address field in the Domino Directory.

If I am splitting my Domino Directory, and certain people should ONLY be allowed to receive email from one domain or the other, I need to first make sure the correct people have the new Internet Address field listed correctly.

I can do this by selecting the users in the Domino Directory and using the "Set Internet Address" tool in the Administrator client.

Once that is done, I need to make sure that Domino ONLY uses the entire Internet address to do lookups, and not just the shortname. I can do this by going to the server's Configuration document --> Router/SMTP tab --> Basics tab, and changing the "Address Lookup" field to 'Fullname only'.

The nice thing about this is that if you change the Internet Address for a user, the next time they log in it will automatically pull that address down to their Personal Address book's Location document.

And that's it! The entire process is seamless to your users, with the exception that they now have a new Internet email address that they'll need to notify their contacts.
Are there any "How To" procedures that you'd like to see here? Have you completed a project and would like to share your steps? Log in and blog, or send me an email about it at Jess.42@gmail.com.

-Jess


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