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exchange 2003 forward mail to Gmail

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I have an SBS server 2003 with exchange 2003

I have a user that wants to forward his mail to Gmail

I have set up a contact and set up his user account to forward mail to the contact
 Also marked the Tick box to deliver mail to the contact  and the user mailbox

I done the following as outlined here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/281926 
1.      Start the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in.
2.      Expand the server, and then right-click Users.
3.      Click New, and then click Contact.
4.      Type a name.
5.      Click Modify, click SMTP, and then click OK to create the custom SMTP mail address.
6.      Type the SMTP e-mail address, click OK, click Next, and then click Finish.
Then I done the following
1.      Start the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in.
2.      Right-click the mail-enabled user, and then click Properties.
3.      Click the Exchange General tab.
4.      Click Delivery Options.
5.      In the Forwarding Address section, click Forward to, and then click Modify.
6.      Click the mail-enabled user or the mail-enabled contact. Then, click OK.

Note If you want e-mail to be delivered to the original mailbox as well as the forwarding address, select the Deliver messages to both forwarding address and mailbox check box.
7.      To close Delivery Options and to close Properties, click OK two times.
 
Now the user receives some mail to his Gmail account and some mail to his user account

Have I done something wrong
I need to have all mail sent to both mailbox and Gmail

Thanks for any help

Robbie  
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hi dazman786
I have followed the steps to the letter as I have done many times before
never had this happen before
I have seen this issue  with your own eyes
thanks
Robert
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hi all
I have many accounts on this server using contacts to forward mail to Gmail
none of them have any issues

he seems to receive more mail to Gmail and only the odd one to outlook

he only has one email account in exchange and the new contact I have just set up last week

thanks again for all your help
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Does his outlook have a filter on? If you have made sure that the option to copy mail to both mailbox and forward address, then it SHOULD be copying to at least the mailbox.
Ok thanks for the extra info. I would check then that he hasnt created any silly outlook rules that might be breaking the system. Or the outlook junk mail filter might be junking some emails that gmail doesnt

Key thing ofc is that every email that arrives in outlook arrives in gmail, test one from internal and one from an external account. If thats the case then all is working fine.
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hi all

I deleted the contact and created a new one
set up a new forward and now all seems to work ok

thanks for all your help