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Hello,
Currently I have an Exchange 2003 server and a linux pop3/smtp mail server for outside mail. i need to set up exchange to forward internal mail of one account that gets held on the exchange server to a mailbox on the linux box. this needs to be done only for one account. hope this makes sense
Currently I have an Exchange 2003 server and a linux pop3/smtp mail server for outside mail. i need to set up exchange to forward internal mail of one account that gets held on the exchange server to a mailbox on the linux box. this needs to be done only for one account. hope this makes sense
Create a contact with the email address of the account on the Linux box.
In ADUC, get the user properties, under Exchange General, click on Delivery Options.
Check Forward To, pick the contact, and if you want to deliver the mail to both the forwarder and the Exchange mailbox, check the box below that to forward both to the recipient and mailbox (or whatever it says). After you do this, you may want to hide that contact from the GAL.
In ADUC, get the user properties, under Exchange General, click on Delivery Options.
Check Forward To, pick the contact, and if you want to deliver the mail to both the forwarder and the Exchange mailbox, check the box below that to forward both to the recipient and mailbox (or whatever it says). After you do this, you may want to hide that contact from the GAL.
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i don't think that would work just because the domain the exchange would be forwarding to is the same as the domain in the pop3 server
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that is what i was thinking mestha. i was hoping there was a little bit a "cleaner" "simpler" method then that.
this was my idea what do you think:
original email address: email@domain.com
on the linux box, create a dummy account called email1@domain.com that forwards email to email@domain.com.
now on the exchange server, create a contact with smtp:email1@domain.com. next, forward email@domain.com to email1@domain.com contact.
in theory user@domain.com will send an internal email to email@domain.com, exchange will forward it to email1@domain.com, exchange will search for the user email1@domain.com and not find it therefore sending it out to the pop3/smtp server and the pop3 delivers it to email1@domain.com which then gets forwarded to the inbox of email@domain.com
very jerry-rigged but seems like workaround. what do you think?
costrack
this was my idea what do you think:
original email address: email@domain.com
on the linux box, create a dummy account called email1@domain.com that forwards email to email@domain.com.
now on the exchange server, create a contact with smtp:email1@domain.com. next, forward email@domain.com to email1@domain.com contact.
in theory user@domain.com will send an internal email to email@domain.com, exchange will forward it to email1@domain.com, exchange will search for the user email1@domain.com and not find it therefore sending it out to the pop3/smtp server and the pop3 delivers it to email1@domain.com which then gets forwarded to the inbox of email@domain.com
very jerry-rigged but seems like workaround. what do you think?
costrack
If you already have the server setup to share the SMTP address between the two servers, then your idea should work as well. The simple goal is to have email forwarded to an address that doesn't exist on the Exchange server. Now my own hesitant point is having the contact in the same domain, because Exchange will see that AD object as having an email address in the domain that it knows is local - hence my method of using a dummy domain.
Simon.
Simon.
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*wishin' there was a toggle button* heh thanks mestha
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