Thanks. What about the rules still applying if the user's account is disabled? What about if the account is deleted, but the mailbox kept?
Dan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mulnick, Al Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 1:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange Mail Forwarding I like to shoot the departing users, but my HR says that's not something I should tell outsiders about. <G> Seriously, the way you're doing it is about the only way you can do it because there is no easy way to get an auto-reply server side ( you could write code, but..) That's best done via the client. If not for that, you *could* put the SMTP addr as a secondary on a DL that included the two other mailboxes. Or PF, or contact, or whatever mailbox/mail-enabled object you wanted and remove the users mailbox. Al -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan DeStefano Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 12:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange Mail Forwarding We have a W2k AD domain with Exchange 2000. I am an Exchange novice. I have a user who has recently left the company and need his e-mail forwarded to 2 different users. The way I have done this is by setting up a rule using the user's Outlook profile that forwards all messages to these two users and also replies to the sender with a message that the user is no longer with the company and who to send future e-mails to. I am not too happy with this solution as I believe there may be a way to set this up on the Exchange server itself. However, I have only found how to forward the user's e-mail to another user's mailbox, but not to multiple mailboxes or to a distribution group and no way to create the auto-reply. My questions are: Is it possible to set this up on the server without having to use the client's Outlook? What about the auto-reply message? I would like to disable the user's domain account for security reasons. If I do, will the user's mailbox still receive messages and will the Outlook rules still work? What are the commonly-accepted procedures for dealing with departing users? I would greatly appreciate any help that can be provided. Dan DeStefano List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
