My company will eventually be moving our email to Exchange but retaining a Domino environment for databases & applications. For the moment, a colleague has set up a test Exchange environment.
I have created a test user to try to achieve the following:
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Allow email access and test internal & external mail can be sent and recieved.
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Remove email access completely but keep person record live for access to databases.
I tried to edit the person record, thinking that changing mail system to ‘none’ would accomplish this, but a day later external email is still being delivered to the user’s inbox. I have forced replication of names.nsf just in case there was a problem there but still nothing. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Tom Banks
Subject: How to migrate email but retain database access?
When we went through this, we hired a consultant to help with the details - if you can’t figure it out on your own, it may be worth the money to get someone in who can assist.
Since I’m a ‘pretend’ admin (dev by training, stuck with admin after the downsized the real guy), I’ll provide you with my summary of how we’re set up.
Notes apps keep running just like they always did.
Each user NAB entry has a forwarding address to the Exchange domain.
The server has a foreign domain document that points to the Exchange domain.
We’re running CoexLinks (GO, BUY IT, BUY IT NOW) to handle conversion of doc links to NDL or NotesURL or http URLs, it’s magic and just work.
New users are built to ‘use other internet mail’ and don’t get mail dbs.
Mail routes out of Notes to Exchange and into the user’s Outlook mail box. No mail routes into Notes at all. Because the Exchange system is set up to disallow forwarding of ‘foreign’ mail and our Notes domain is foreign, user’s can’t auto forward mail from Notes out of their mail to any internet address. We also can’t send internet mail via Notes. This isn’t a limitation on the Notes side, it’s the way our admins have chosen to configure Exchange.
HTH