How to setup an email auto responder for specific accounts via exchage ?

Hi LeonHeyns,

When you say you have emails sent to jobs@mydomain.com, do you mean that you set up a user mailbox in Exchange called Jobs?  
Or, have you just added jobs@yourdomain.com to your own mailbox?
Or do you mean that you are still using POP3 email and have set up this forwarding at the POP3 server?

Any of the above is really the wrong way to start.

What you want to do is create a public folder that is mail enabled.  
You must do this in the Server Management Console > Advanced Management > First Organization (Exchange) > Folders > Public Folders.  
Right click to create a new folder called jobs then click OK.
Then right click the new "jobs" folder to select All Tasks > Mail Enable
Right click once more and select properties > E-mail Addresses tab
Click New... and add SMTP Address jobs@domain.com
Then, if you want a copy of the message to go to your mailbox as well, click on the Exchange General tab and Delivery Options and select Forward to: and enter leon@mydomain.com as well as "Deliver messages to both forwarding address and folder"
Click OK to close out the properties dialogue.

Then, to configure the autoresponder you must use Outlook on your workstation
Open Outlook and click the Folder List icon to display all folders.
Navigate to the new Public Folder > Jobs
Right click on the folder and select properties
On the Administration tab click Folder Assistant and then Add Rule
Under Perform these actions: check "Reply with" and click Template...
Enter the subject and then any reply message leaving the To... and CC... boxes blank
Close the template and click YES to save changes
Click OK on the rule and click YES to acknowledge that it will fire for all incomming messages
Then OK again to save your changes.

Instead of having the Jobs folder forward a copy of each received message to your inbox, it would probably be better to just add it to your Favorites Folders so you can see it directly in Outlook.

Jeff
TechSoEasy