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Can anyone out there tell me how to create a TRUE catch-all acount within Exchange 2000?
A catch-all acount like with Linux Mail and Rockliff's Mailsite will accept any mail sent to a particular domain that is not associated with a valid e-mail account. like nucklehead@mydomain.com when I truely only have jon@mydomain.com and jane@mydomain.com as valid e-mail accounts. .....Anyone???

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Just to add a little more here, I have found a couple ways around this, like having the undeliverable message, along with the attached original message to one of my valid accounts, but I'm looking for a way to make it happen like the above mentionedprograms...crisp, and clean- bonehead@mydomain.com gets delivered to the designated valid account! Also, the originator of the message doesn't get an undeliverable message sent back to them which is the driving reason to get this to work!

by miha.pihler

It is possible.

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

As I stated in my coment above, I've already done this, but I'm looking for a "cleaner" way of doing it, I don't want to have the originator of the message get an undelivered message back to them, then I have to respond to the originator and explainthat I DID get the message. This solution defeats my purpose. Thanks for the help.

by steve merrill

Not sure if this would work, but try setting up an account like knucklehead@mydomain.com, then set an SMTP pointer for *@mydomain.com to go there also.

by reference

I've tried this as well, it didn't work. the * acted as a name field, not a wild card. Thanks for the help.

by miha.pihler

I guess I misunderstood the question the first time. You can reject my answer again. Here is just some more information for you.

There is no option in Exchange to prevent delivery of NDR. Sender will always get NDR.

What I would do if I neededthis option? I would make my Exchange server deliver all outgoing mail to internal mail relay and I would filter NDR messages on relay server. Of course if I would use mail relay server that would allow me to do content filtering on outgoing mail.
The other option is to contact Microsoft and they will do what you want. Of course that costs money... just like e.g. customized errors (including NDRs).

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Regards, Mike

by shanghai sam

Thanks again for the help, I'm usually pretty lenient with awarding points, but since I've offered 2000 points in order to get the exact answer I'm looking for, I'm going to have to reject this answer as well! Thanks again!

by coopachi

I don't know of a clean way in Exchange to do what you are asking. I use a third party app. called Mail Essentials. This is a tremendous product w/ very solid AV built in. It comes in Ex. 5.5 and 2000. It is extremely good at spam filtering. It basically sits out front of your mail server and filters the mail and then sends it to its destination. It delivers all NDR's to the named Mail Essentials admin. I even have my Outlook set to send all NDR's to my Delete folder. It is a much cheaper alternative to many of AV/filters because you don't have to buy a server modual. see www.gfi.com or search for Mail Essentials.
I am are extremely pleased with the product. We have not had a single mass mailing virus (KLEZ, SIRCAM etc...) touch us.

hope this helps, even though it is not within E2k
I believe that it would be worth checking out.

-coopachi

by shanghai sam

Thanks for the help, I'm going to look into this program, the price is not bad, I'm just not sure if the customer wants to pay anymore for this......He will if he wants it bad enough huh? If I could award partial points just to you I would. Thanks again.

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