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Email alias/forwarding to extrnl address

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by beergod

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We have a large group of individuals that are part of our organization and need to recieve email via our domain name but then have it forwarded to their home email addresses so that they don't need to use Outlook or OWA. With our current hosting provider I can setup an alias user id that forwards @ourcompany.com emails to their personal accounts. How can this be done on Exchange 2000? So far, I can either set them up to recieve an email via our domain OR I can have them setup as an external contact but I can get emails sent from outside to forward to their home addresses. Any ideas?

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by beergod

The multiple addresses in each profile are the addresses that the user can recieve mail from. The primary is the default Reply address. These have nothing to do with where the mail is directed.

by timwalsh

In Active Directory Users and Computers | Users folder, right-click the User's account and open Properties. Click the Exchange Genereral tab and choose Delivery Options. You should be able to enter a forwarding address (forward mail to another recipient) and also select whether the forwarded mail should be delivered to both the forwarding address and the local mailbox for that user.

Hope this solves your problem.

by beergod

That option only allows you to specify another user account not another external address (you can't type in an address, you can only select one from the Directory).

by Former member

You must set up the users again as Custom Recipients. Here you can specify an smtp address for the mail to be delivered to. Then go into the original mailboxes & select the custom recepient as the delivery alternative. You can then hide the custom receipients from the GAL to finish it off.

by beergod

Not an ideal solution, since it requires me to setup 2 accounts for about 75 people but I suppose that will get the job done. Thanks

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