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by bjsabs

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I'm Using Exchange 2000 on SBS 2000
I have an account that receives an absurd amount of junk mail.I've made a new account for that user. I want to hide this mailbox and put up a messege for anyone sending mail to it to contact the company for thatusers new e-mail address.
Where does one create this type of messege?
Thanks in advance

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by kdrungilas

You would still need to set up the rule in the actual mailbox. Even though it will be hidden from the GAL, it can still receive mail.

Your best bet is to log into the mailbox as the mailbox owner and set up a Rule to answer every mail item with a specific reply (about contacting the compay at name@compay.com) and then permanently delete the mail item.

Don't neglect to periodically open the mailbox to clena out any other items like meeting/task updates, etc.

by kdrungilas

You could also set up your rule to add "Unsubscribe" to the reply message subject...sometimes that cuts down on junk mail. But sometimes a reply itself just confirms that the email is valid. kd

by bjsabs

That would work, But I can not delete the messages as they come in. I need to be able to access them in the event a
"real" message was accidentally lost as spam.

Sounds like you have some good ideas. any others?

by kdrungilas

Well, you could create your rule to reply with specific words and just move the messages to another folder/subfolder that you can create like "Answered Messages" or "Done" or whatever. That would let you continue to read through the messages later.I was assuming that if a sender actually wanted to send a valid message, they would respond with an email to your "someone@company.com" address requesting an updated email for the real person who had the junk mail problem.

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