hai, Your email domain is not depend on AD domain Name. You can create any SMTP address for AD user account. Email Domain Name depend on DNS server MX record, you have to put correct email domain in the MX record. Best regards, Malinda Perera. Systems Engineer ZILLIONe Systems Solutions (Pvt) Ltd. 166/2, Havelock Road, Colombo - 05 Sri Lanka Tel: +94 (011) 451 5350 - Ext: 183 Fax: +94 (011) 259 9670 Email: malindap@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:BrianS@xxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.zillione.com ________________________________ From: monika.k.rabarison@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:monika.k.rabarison@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thu 9/9/2004 4:36 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] domain naming http://www.MSExchange.org/ Hello, I am a newbie designated to deploy Exchange 2003 just for email usage. We don't have Active Directory in place. Our registered domain name is jsums.edu. If I use a subdomain, let say ad.jsums.edu as root-domain for AD, can I still have the email address in the format user@xxxxxxxxx, instead of user@xxxxxxxxxxxx? I was thinking about an MX record on the public DNS server as "jsums.edu mailserver.ad.jsums.edu". Will this work? Thanks for any insight, Monika ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: World of Windows Networking: http://www.windowsnetworking.com Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSEXchange.org Discussion List as: malindap@xxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Report abuse to listadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx