CONFIGURING
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:
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:
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:
If the Global domain uses the SMTP MTA to send SMTP mail, the name entered in this field must match the name of the Global domain specified in the Server document of the SMTP MTA server (MTAs tab - Global domain name field). If the entries do not match, the SMTP MTA fails to load and the server console displays the following message: Unable to get Global domain in the Name and Address book
If you designate this Global domain document as the default, servers in this Domino domain use its settings to control address lookup and construction on outbound SMTP messages that don't have the sender's Internet address. Address conversion settings in other Global domain documents in the directory is ignored.
When there are multiple Global domain documents, but none is designated the default, the Router uses the address construction rules from Global domain document that is listed last alphabetically in the Domino Directory. However, in this case, the Router does not use the Primary Internet domain defined in this Global domain document uses to construct the outbound sender's Internet address; instead, it constructs the address using the domain suffix entered in the Fully qualified Internet host name field on the Basics tab of the server's Server document.
Note: If address lookup is enabled on a Configuration Settings document that applies to the server, the Router ignores the address lookup setting on the default Global domain document.
For Domino domains with names that contain non-ASCII characters, include an alternative, or alias, domain name that consists of ASCII characters only, and separate the two names with the separator character defined in the next field. Domino uses the ASCII name in SMTP communications, which do not support non-ASCII content.
When mail is received for an address in the format Admin%AliasName@renovations.com, the receiving server converts the Alias name to the actual Domino domain name and then routes the message to the specified domain.
While this document shows fields for the X.400 Address, these do not apply to your SMTP configuration and should remain blank, unless you previously configured an X.400 MTA within this global domain.
Table 3. Conversions tab - SMTP Address Conversion
On outbound messages, the SMTP server or SMTP MTA appends the entry in this field as the Internet domain suffix when constructing the sender's Internet return address on an outbound SMTP message. This lets organizations composed of multiple subsidiaries to appear as a single organization to the Internet. For example, if you enter renovations.com, all outbound SMTP mail originating within the organization will have a return address of renovations.com. This is true even when there are multiple outbound SMTP servers configured within the same Notes® Global domain.
To use different Internet domains in the return addresses of mail sent from different servers in your organization, for example, renovations.com and renovations.co.uk, you must have a Global Domain document for each primary domain name.
The Internet domains listed in this field and the alternate domain aliases field comprise the internal Internet domain. For inbound messages, the SMTP server or SMTP MTA verifies the addresses of all messages recipients against these entries. Messages for recipients in the listed domains are accepted for local delivery.
This field supports a maximum of 64KB of text.
SMTP servers in this Global domain will accept inbound mail for all the Internet domains aliases listed in this field or the local primary Internet domain field. Inbound SMTP mail is restricted to the domains listed.
You can explicitly name the Internet domains to be included in this Global domain, or use a leading wildcard character ('*'), to represent all subdomains for a given primary domain; for example, *.iris.com. Wildcards are valid when used as the first character of an entry only. You cannot use a wildcard to represent a top-level domain name or a subset of the characters in a domain or subdomain name. For example, the following are not valid wildcard entries: iris.*, *is.com, iris*.com.
Note: When a server sends and receives Internet mail for multiple Internet domains, if you want each user's address to reflect the identity of their own domain, be sure to complete the Internet address field in each Person document. Otherwise outbound mail sent from user's in your alternate Internet domains will always appear to be sent from the primary domain.
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