Multiple accounts in Exchange

[Mr_love_monkey]

So I've playing around with SBS 2003 - and have it all installed, and want to use the exchange server.

Now, my problem is that depending on what hat I am wearing I will need email to be sent from either address1@domain1.com or address2@domain1.com, or address1@domain2.com, and so on...

I can set it up to recieve mails from all these domains to one account, that's no problem - but how do I choose what account the email comes from via exchange?

[Aragorn]

It's not Exchange that decides who the sender is, it's the mail client.
In Outlook (proper) if you add multiple accounts, it allows you to select which account to send from when compiling a message. OE & Windows Mail have similar.
Hope that's what you meant.

[MovedGoalPosts]

Outlook 2003 (which is the bundle package with SBS 2003) uses the single login account that is associated with your active domain user profile.

You can set rules in exchange that allow address@domain1.com, address2@domain1.com or even address3@domain3.co.uk to associate those emails with individual users accounts, or alternatively with distribution lists.

If your users have allocated "send on behalf" permissions for their accounts you can reply to emails adding the "from" field so that the alternative email will appear.

If you need to send on behalf of a distribution group then things become really fun. Haven't got the details to hand now. I know I had to do a serious bit of to find a solution.

[Uncle Peter]

You can't send on behalf of a DG - you can't assign those permissions. You would have to use a security group which is mail enabled.

[Matthew]

Easiest way is to setup a contact within the Contacts with one for each address and then set the From address in Outlook, in a new message there is an option to select the BCC and From boxes, select the from box and search for your contact from your contacts and select it to the From box. Hope this makes sense.

[Uncle Peter]

I would be inclined to setup three mailboxes with the desired primary smtp address, ditch the Outlook client and use OWA to access to each mailbox. When it comes to managing access to multiple mailboxes Outlook is about as useful as a chocolate fireguard. One of the main problems being that your sent items are deposited in the primary mailbox for your profile (unless you start faffing about with rules), you could also forget to populate the TO field and send from the wrong account.

[berkut]

I would agree with what Uncle Peter said above. 3 mailboxes 1 for each domain and set the primary smtp address for the account to what you need is the easiest method.

Before creating the 3 accounts / mailboxes though you need to make sure that you have the @domain1.com etc smtp addresses added to the default policy template for the recipients policy in the exchange organisation. If you do not do this outbound mail will be tagged as username@<domainname>.local or whatever you called your internal domain.

Also be aware that some ISP's will not relay mail for domains that they do not hold the MX record for, if your domains are not registered with your ISP for mail exchange then you need to make sure that the SMTP virtual server service is pointing to the correct mail exchanger or smart host for your domains.

[Mr_love_monkey]

ok, sounds like a good plan - different accounts and the send on behalf permissions...


now can someone tell me in simple words how to do that ?

[Uncle Peter]

If you're using Outlook Web Access then you won't need to. Authenticate with each individual account associated with the mailbox, remember your url for OWA in Exchange 2003 is http://servername/exchange

Just make sure that integrated windows authentication isn't enabled for the /exchange virtual directory (by default it shouldn't be).

But fyi as you were asking: how to grant send on behalf of via aduc