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Multiple users sending as one address in Exchange 2007
"Simple" question everybody:
I've upgraded from POP3-mailboxes shared by 3 people, to an SBS 2008 server with Exchange 2007 running. Email is coming and going, all looks good.
Except they don't have the ability to choose their from address easily any more. I see two solutions with the following pros/cons:
eg: Alice and Bob work in sales and want their default "from" address as sales@company.com. They also need the ability to send as accounts@company.com.
Option 1: Set email alias as their default. Except now only one person can use sales@ and adding the email address to other accounts gives a "proxy address already in use" error when I edit the AD account.
Option 2: Send as distribution list. This does everything I want, their default email addresses are alice@ and bob@ - not sales@.
Option 3: a client-side Outlook plugin to "Send as" multiple personalities
Option 4: Setup the sales@ email address as an separate mailbox, have them open additional mailboxes in their Outlook profile, and setup "sending on behalf of...". This would shock them (three sets of inboxes?!) and for a few other reasons I can't see this working well.
Can anyone suggest a way to get option 1 working, or option 2? I've tried a dozen google searches with not much luck.
I've upgraded from POP3-mailboxes shared by 3 people, to an SBS 2008 server with Exchange 2007 running. Email is coming and going, all looks good.
Except they don't have the ability to choose their from address easily any more. I see two solutions with the following pros/cons:
eg: Alice and Bob work in sales and want their default "from" address as sales@company.com. They also need the ability to send as accounts@company.com.
Option 1: Set email alias as their default. Except now only one person can use sales@ and adding the email address to other accounts gives a "proxy address already in use" error when I edit the AD account.
Option 2: Send as distribution list. This does everything I want, their default email addresses are alice@ and bob@ - not sales@.
Option 3: a client-side Outlook plugin to "Send as" multiple personalities
Option 4: Setup the sales@ email address as an separate mailbox, have them open additional mailboxes in their Outlook profile, and setup "sending on behalf of...". This would shock them (three sets of inboxes?!) and for a few other reasons I can't see this working well.
Can anyone suggest a way to get option 1 working, or option 2? I've tried a dozen google searches with not much luck.
To send-as distribution group I believe you can use the following:
Add-ADPermission -Identity 'Distinguished Name' -User 'alice' -ExtendedRights 'Send-as'
To get the distiguished name, use Get-DistributionGroup <name of dist> | fl and copy DistinguishedName.
I haven't tested this, but should work ok.
An easier way may be to create a mailbox for Accounts, and then give both users full access rights, send-as rights, add to their Outlook view, and problem sorted.
Shaun
Shaun
Add-ADPermission -Identity 'Distinguished Name' -User 'alice' -ExtendedRights 'Send-as'
To get the distiguished name, use Get-DistributionGroup <name of dist> | fl and copy DistinguishedName.
I haven't tested this, but should work ok.
An easier way may be to create a mailbox for Accounts, and then give both users full access rights, send-as rights, add to their Outlook view, and problem sorted.
Shaun
Shaun
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Shaun,
The additional mailbox approach won't allow me to have everyone reply from "sales@company.com" so that approach won't work. As I mentioned, many people can use DLs in the way you describe, but the default 'reply' address is still employee@company.com.
Victor/Ivasoft,
Minor nitpick - Googling "SendAsGroup for Microsoft Exchange 2007" sends me to your own product. It looks like a good solution but a direct link to your own website and a "oh and I am from this company" disclaimer would have been better. I'll be looking into it but the cost is a bit high for the functionality for 2-3 users.
Does anyone else know of a way to allow multiple people to reply as one email address, as their default email address, in Exchange 2007?
The additional mailbox approach won't allow me to have everyone reply from "sales@company.com" so that approach won't work. As I mentioned, many people can use DLs in the way you describe, but the default 'reply' address is still employee@company.com.
Victor/Ivasoft,
Minor nitpick - Googling "SendAsGroup for Microsoft Exchange 2007" sends me to your own product. It looks like a good solution but a direct link to your own website and a "oh and I am from this company" disclaimer would have been better. I'll be looking into it but the cost is a bit high for the functionality for 2-3 users.
Does anyone else know of a way to allow multiple people to reply as one email address, as their default email address, in Exchange 2007?
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Victor