CONFIGURING


Using a Global Domain document to set up a server to receive mail for multiple Internet domains

Every organization has a primary Internet domain name -- for example, renovations.com -- by which it is known to the rest of the world. By default, Domino® considers the local, primary Internet domain to be the domain specified in the server's host name. For example, for a server with the host name Server1.renovations.com, both Server1.renovations.com and renovations.com are considered local Internet domains. The server does not accept messages addressed to recipients in any other Internet domain.

About this task

In addition to having a primary Internet domain, some organizations use alternate Internet domain names. If your organization uses more than one Internet domain name, you'll want Domino to consider other domain suffixes as local. Using multiple Internet domain names typically results when:


If for any of the preceding reasons people in your organization have addresses in an Internet domain other than the primary domain, create a Global Domain document. A Global Domain document identifies the Internet domains that are considered to be internal to a Domino domain and for which the local domain can accept mail. By default, the Domino Directory does not contain a Global domain document. Within the Global Domain document, you specify one primary Internet domain name and multiple secondary domains. Secondary domains are listed as alternate Internet domain aliases.

Settings in the Global domain document are static and loaded only at server initialization. You cannot dynamically refresh settings by restarting or updating the Router ( by means of the TELL ROUTER UPDATE CONFIG command).

Note: For servers using the SMTP MTA, the Global domain document also specifies the Domino domains allowed to send outbound SMTP mail through this Domino domain.

You must ensure that the DNS is set up to include all the Internet domain names that your company uses.

Use the Global domain document to define:


A Global domain document is required if you have multiple Internet domains, multiple Domino domains within the local Internet domain, or use the Domino SMTP inbound controls.

To create a Global Domain document

Procedure

1. Make sure you already have a Configuration Settings document for the server(s) to be configured.

2. From the Domino Administrator, click the Configuration tab and then expand the Messaging section.

3. Choose Domains, and then click Add Domain.

4. On the Basics tab, complete these fields:


5. Click the Restrictions tab and complete these fields:
6. Click the Conversions tab, complete these fields, and then save the document.
7. Restart the server to put the changes into effect. The server reloads information in the Global Domain document into memory only after a restart.

What to do next

If a Domino server uses ETRN to pull mail for multiple Internet domains from another mail host, you can set up the Connection document to that host to request mail for alternate Internet domains. Details can be found in the topic Routing mail over transient connections.

Related concepts
Setting up how addresses are resolved on inbound and outbound mail
The Domain Name System (DNS) and SMTP mail routing
Planning a mail routing topology
Changing the default format for constructing the sender's Internet address on outbound mail

Related tasks
Creating a Configuration Settings document
Routing mail over transient connections
Enabling a server to receive mail sent over SMTP routing
How Domino uses Global domain documents during inbound and outbound SMTP routing

Related reference
How Domino formats the sender's Internet address in outbound messages