Chris Thomas
Guest
|
 Posted:
Wed Jan 05, 2005 8:13 pm Post subject:
Auto-forwarding mail |
|
|
Hello there. My company is using Exchange Server 2003. We have a few
consultants that work for us on a permanent basis that use their own e-mail
addresses to receive mail. We want them to have an address in our system as
well, but we want all mail coming into that address to be automatically
forwarded to their own e-mail address and not even hit our mailbox store at
all. These consultants receive mail from both inside and outside of our
organization. We have 3 of this type of consultant working for us, and each
one of them has an address at a different domain, depending on who their isp
is.
I have created a user account for each of them in my directory and set up 2
smtp addresses. One on my domain, and the other one pointing to their
external mail account. Their main address is the external one. My questions
are, do I need to do anything else to get this working and should I have any
problems with routing mail from my domain to another domain if the original
message comes from a domain other than mine. I think I just confused myself
with that last sentence, but what I'm worried about are the more stringent
spam blocking measures that some companies have implemented.
Please let me know if anyone can shed some light on this situation for me.
Thanks in advance.
|
|
Glen Trafford
Guest
|
| Posted:
Thu Jan 06, 2005 5:21 am Post subject:
Re: Auto-forwarding mail |
|
|
You could use a mail enabled user rather than mailbox enabled user. This way
the consultants appear in the GAL and internal users can choose them and
send to them, but all email is delivered directly to their external email
account.
To do this right click on the user object, exchange tasks, delete mailbox
then do it again Exchange tasks, use Establish E-mail address rather than
create mailbox.
The consultants above however will not have an email address at your
company. So if you want them to have an email address of
consultant@yourcompany.com then leave the mailbox (remove the external email
address) and create a contact object that has the external email address.
Then on the properties of the mailbox user go to Exchange General tab,
Delivery option and add the contact in the Forward to box. You can then hide
the contact object from the address lists. Again any email internal or
external to the consultant will be forwarded to the external email account.
The result of either way is that your exchange server does not store any
email for the consultants, it is automatically forwarded to their external
account. The only issue is whether the consultants should have a company
address or not.
Glen
"Chris Thomas" <Chris Thomas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:836D8BDD-D078-43B1-A16D-A913F6EFB3DC@microsoft.com...
| Quote: | Hello there. My company is using Exchange Server 2003. We have a few
consultants that work for us on a permanent basis that use their own
e-mail
addresses to receive mail. We want them to have an address in our system
as
well, but we want all mail coming into that address to be automatically
forwarded to their own e-mail address and not even hit our mailbox store
at
all. These consultants receive mail from both inside and outside of our
organization. We have 3 of this type of consultant working for us, and
each
one of them has an address at a different domain, depending on who their
isp
is.
I have created a user account for each of them in my directory and set up
2
smtp addresses. One on my domain, and the other one pointing to their
external mail account. Their main address is the external one. My
questions
are, do I need to do anything else to get this working and should I have
any
problems with routing mail from my domain to another domain if the
original
message comes from a domain other than mine. I think I just confused
myself
with that last sentence, but what I'm worried about are the more stringent
spam blocking measures that some companies have implemented.
Please let me know if anyone can shed some light on this situation for me.
Thanks in advance.
|
|
|
FAQ
Memberlist
Register
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in