Question : Setup Exchange 2007 for multiple internet domains

Hi,

Is there a way to setup an Exchange 2007 Server to accept email for several internet domains without an associated AD account? For example, we have several internet domains I'd like to accept mail for and then be able to access those messages from both Outlook and Web Access. I'd like the different accounts to be able to work in Outlook kind of like regular IMAP4 accounts (how you can specify several of them and they all show up in your folder list and operate independently). The last thing I want is for all of the emails from these addresses to be thrown into one user's inbox.

I attached a screenshot of how I currently have IMAP working with another email server so you can see what I'm talking about (the current one is just a regular IMAP email server). The grayed out items in the tree are just the separate email accounts on the IMAP server.

Cheers and thanks in advance!

Answer : Setup Exchange 2007 for multiple internet domains

Exchange uses public folders as a central location that everyone can access.  Making it easy for multiple people to utilize the one folder for common communication.  For example if a company wanted to be able to setup a schedule for reserving a conference room then they would setup a conference room public calendar folder.  If a company wants a contact list that is available to everyone then you could setup a , a public client contact folder.  if you had a group of people working on a project you may want to setup a public email folder that all those project emails and ideas would be stored.  Each of these public folders you can associate with an email address.  That's what a public folder is.

But... that's not the problem.  From what I understand you have three different Exchange based email addresses and you want to be able to send and receive from all three without using multiple profiles.   This is a common problem with no straight forward solution.  You have a couple options.  

1) You can use one Exchange account that would sync your calendar and contacts in addition to your email and then use imap/pop with your other accounts.
2) You can setup different aliases to point your one account and then create a filter by email addresss to organize the different accounts to different folders.  But then you can only send the email from that one email address.

I would go with the second option if you have a choice.  What would happen, for example is that you have your three email addresses, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected].  I would forward all email from the secondary.com and other.com accounts and forward them to your [email protected] account.  Then seup a filter in Outlook to automatically move anything that comes in from secondar.com or other.com to a folder with corresponding names.  The only problem is when you send emails they'll always come from [email protected].

Sorry there's not  a better solution.  When I ran into this problem in the past I used a combination of the second option and multiple profiles.  That way I can see all the email that's coming in and if I need to reply I log out of one profile and into another.

Hope that helps,
tenaj