Company split - best practices for notes/domino as both companies keep mail address

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Hi

Our company is being split into two. Both companies will continue with notes/domino, and the initial idea was to setup a new servers/domain for company B, and have company A continue with the current domino servers, and keep the current mail addresses @maincompany.com. Company B would get new mailaddresses.

This has changed slightly because of an agreement between the 2 owners of the company.

Both companies will have to get new mail addresses, so that we’ll have @compA.com and @compB.com. In addition to this, the old mailaddress @maincompany.com is going to work for BOTH companies. I know all the mail to this address need to go to one mailserver, which could be the server at company A and mail to company B on old address would have to get forwarded, but I guess this will clutter the address book at company A, as there need to be a person entry for all employees at Company B to be able to forward mail to them + all employees at A needs duplicate person documents to be able to support 2 mail addresses (or is there a smarter way?).

One idea is to create a new domain also for Company A, and leave the old server in the middle to just forward mail that is sent to the old address @maincompany.com.

I’m a bit unsure what would be the best approach - if anyone is still reading (thanks by the way) - I would appreciate your input on this?

stein

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Subject: Company split - best practices for notes/domino as both companies keep mail address

You also could run the dircat task on both address books to produce a directory catalog - you would only need to include a few fields. You would then set up a directory assistance db on one server in one domain pointing to this db. You would need an adjacent domain doc too - so some connection. I agree you should have a cut-off date

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Subject: Company split - best practices for notes/domino as both companies keep mail address

I would lobby for management to buy in to a cutoff date, say a year from now, when the old addresses will cease to work. That will let you clean things up at that time. Meanwhile, it would probably be best to just keep a small server at maincompany.com with the combined address book just for mail routing. You could also consider letting a service such as Postini or MessageLabs do the mail routing for you (while providing the added value of spam and virus control).