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by fosteruk

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OK we have set up the pop box for exchange to forward emails to peoples exchange accounts e.g

barry@accountants.co.uk forwards to barry@accountants.lan locally

The problem we have is we dont know how to set exchange up to forward all the email's that arrive for unknown people, e.g

sadadsafasdz@accountants.co.uk forwards to Adminitstrator's email account on the server.

Catch my drift?

Please help, im at my wits end!

Thanks in advance

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by miha.pihler

Go to Exchange System Administrator and go to Server and Expand it, then Expend the Protocols and then SMTP. Right click your SMTP Virtual Server and then click on Messages and in the field "Send copy of Non-Delivery Report to" type address like administrator@domain.com and all the mail that failed to deliver on your mail server will go to this address.

I think you can only deliver this NDR to individual mailbox (e.g. administrator@domain.com) and not to distribution list, but I am not 100%sure about this?

Regards, Mike

by reference

I just finished dealing with this issue. The fist answer will work, but the problem with this is that the original sender of the message will get an undelivered message back to them, and the forwarded e-mail address will get an undeliverable message, with the original message attached. this works, but it's sloppy. The only way that I know of to setup a "true" catchall account is use VB Scripts. Thanks again to Joseph Moore for pointing me to this Microsoft article. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q324021
There is one error in the smtpreg.vbs script at line#287
If you are interested in implementing this solution, and don't know much about VBS, you can e-mail me directly (reference@ccaccess.net) and I will show youwhat the error in the script is. Once my programming friend helped me with the error, it works Beautifully...if you’re only dealing with only one domain on your server.
Good Luck!

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